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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

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three

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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