I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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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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Power should be a check on power.
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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 incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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