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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

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