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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

Baron de Montesquieu

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
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
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
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

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