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Baron de Montesquieu

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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

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