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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending

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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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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