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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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
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
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power

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