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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de Montesquieu

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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit

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