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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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 is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

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