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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Religion Religious War
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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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Giving Men Slavery
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican

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