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If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides.

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Si les triangles faisoient un Dieu, ils lui donneroient trois cotes.

Montesquieu

Persian Letters · 1721

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Montesquieu. Rica to Uzbek. 14th of the moon of Saphar, 1714.

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