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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Baron de Montesquieu

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
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
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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political

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