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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

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
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
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law

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