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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Baron de Montesquieu

[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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