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Virtue has needs of limits.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful

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