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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

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