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“There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.”

Charles de Secondat · Government

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Charles de Secondat

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

Religion

Charles de Secondat

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.

Religion

Charles de Secondat

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Strength

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Society