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

Baron de Montesquieu

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time

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

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