A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWith truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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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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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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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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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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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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