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

Baron de Montesquieu

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
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
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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

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