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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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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Country Humanity Patriotism
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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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Hands Heart might
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good

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