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Baron de Montesquieu

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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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
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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States

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