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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful

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