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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War

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