"If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides."

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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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"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."

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"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

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