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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study

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