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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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 prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty

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