Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAlthough born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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