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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

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