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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 less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides

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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