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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
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
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking

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