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Baron de Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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
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

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