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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
[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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Believe Kings Religion
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
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

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