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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
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
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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