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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

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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

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