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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Baron de Montesquieu

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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 spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

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