The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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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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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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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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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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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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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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