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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 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
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

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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