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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Baron de Montesquieu

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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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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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Republics end through luxury monarchies through poverty.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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