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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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United 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

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