The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
Charles de Montesquieu
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
majority circumstances success
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
success
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
religion
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
glory simplicity action
Men who have absolutely nothing, such as beggars, have many children.
men
mind
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
rights independence liberty mind
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
wrongs mind
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
rights liberty
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
nations liberty
Nothing is a greater obstacle to our progress in knowledge, then a bad performance of a celebrated author; because, before we instruct we must begin with undeceiving.
progress
The avarice of nations makes them quarrel for the movables of the whole universe.
nations
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
A nation that may be justly called a republic, disguised under the form of a monarchy.
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