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We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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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Law Liberty Umpires
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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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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Law Real War

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

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