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Baron de Montesquieu

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
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
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
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
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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 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
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
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

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