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

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
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
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
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

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

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