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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

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests

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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