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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

Baron de Montesquieu

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury

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