"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
-Charles de Secondat
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"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.“
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"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
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"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
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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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"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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"Power ought to serve as a check to power."
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