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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade

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