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The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles de Secondat
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
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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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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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