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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
One 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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Body Giving Law
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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

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