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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Baron de Montesquieu

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

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