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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Religion Religious War
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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 tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men

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