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When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
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
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men

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