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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

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