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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

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion

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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