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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.

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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims

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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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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