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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
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
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
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking

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