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1. "Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer." ~ Charles De Secondat
2. "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." ~ Charles De Secondat
3. "Society is the union of men and not the men themselves." ~ Charles De Secondat
4. "A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death." ~ Charles De Secondat
5. "But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go." ~ Charles De Secondat
6. "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." ~ Charles De Secondat
7. "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?" ~ Charles De Secondat
8. "I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there." ~ Charles De Secondat
9. "Power ought to serve as a check to power." ~ Charles De Secondat
10. "You have to study a great deal to know a little." ~ Charles De Secondat
11. "Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?" ~ Charles De Secondat
12. "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." ~ Charles De Secondat
13. "There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic." ~ Charles De Secondat
14. "Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune." ~ Charles De Secondat
15. "As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war." ~ Charles De Secondat
16. "Happy the people whose annals are tiresome." ~ Charles De Secondat
17. "Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer." ~ Charles De Secondat
18. "Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws." ~ Charles De Secondat
19. "Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people." ~ Charles De Secondat

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