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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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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Country Humanity Patriotism
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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

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