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

Baron de Montesquieu

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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

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