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

Baron de Montesquieu

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society

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