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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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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
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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Law Name Tyrant
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs

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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