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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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

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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