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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.

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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny

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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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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