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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality

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