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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

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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 have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom

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