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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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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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Hate Running Thinking
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic

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