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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat

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