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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

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty

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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