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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

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