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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

Baron de Montesquieu

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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Magic Two Wisdom
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
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
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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