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Baron de Montesquieu

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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

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