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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims

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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