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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

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