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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Freedom Liberty Missing
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Aunt Believe East
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick

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