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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Baron de Montesquieu

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain

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