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Baron de Montesquieu

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading

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