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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

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
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
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
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish

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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