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

Baron de Montesquieu

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
[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
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

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