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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

May Obliged Wander
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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Religious Spirit War
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Abuse Evil Men
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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
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

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