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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

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
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
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 history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking

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

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