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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
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
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
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
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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

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