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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick

Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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