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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Baron de Montesquieu

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
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 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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans

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