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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
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
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull 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
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

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