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

Baron de Montesquieu

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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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