The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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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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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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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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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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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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