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Baron de Montesquieu

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Favors Given May
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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 majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Cutting Government Tree
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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