The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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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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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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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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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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