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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

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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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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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