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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

Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
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
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
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
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
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful

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