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Law should be like death, which spares no one.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very

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