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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.

Baron de Montesquieu

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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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Democracy Fall Spirit
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.

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