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

Baron de Montesquieu

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
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
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking

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

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