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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Atheism Atheist Law
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
[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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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

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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