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• There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

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  Compassion, Animal, Power

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• Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.

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  Christian, Kings, Hate

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, Letter No. 60, 1721.

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• Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

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  Animal, Men, Society

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• Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

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  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.

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  Passion, Machines, Ruins

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• 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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  Moral, Kind, Enough

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• I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

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  Religious, War, Spirit

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 65, 1721.

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• When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

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  Brain, Guarantees, Humans

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• There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

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  Judging, Liberty, Ifs

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• The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

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  Witty, Coffee, Believe

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• The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

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  Slavery, States

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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• Virtue is necessary to a republic.

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  Republic, Virtue

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• The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

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  Communication, People, Commerce

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• The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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  Philosophical, Law, Execution

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• In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

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  Lying, Passion, Heart

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• To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

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  Philosophical, Delight, Hours

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• When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

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  Wit, Foolishness

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• It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

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  Men, Government, Needs

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria

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• Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

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  Philosophical, Talent, Given

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• Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

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  People, History, Vacant

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• The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

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  Time, Busy, Polite

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• 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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  Intelligent, World, Blind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

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  Running, Hate, Thinking

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• Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.

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  Power, Men, Abuse

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• The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

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  Divorce, Moments, Given

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.606, Library of Alexandria

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