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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
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
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
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
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

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