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When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.

Baron de Montesquieu

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Real War
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Courage Law Morality
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
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
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading

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