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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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

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