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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political

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

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