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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

Baron de Montesquieu

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
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
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

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