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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

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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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