If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHonor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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