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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells

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