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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

Baron de Montesquieu

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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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Body Diversity Movement
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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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Country Humanity Patriotism
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law

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