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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

Baron de Montesquieu

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
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

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