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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

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal 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
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
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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
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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical

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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