Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUGreat commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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