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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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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Age Birthday People
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking

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