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

Baron de Montesquieu

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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