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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#longer #loved #misfortune

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#daughter #few #haunting #hearing #moments

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

#eclipse #fact #human #human reason #intolerance

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#death #his #man #mourned #should

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. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#although #believe #born #boundaries #did

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

— Charles de Secondat

#god #practicing #punish #religion #reveal

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

— Charles de Secondat

#begins #between #different #each #feel

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#appear #fool #i #like #observed

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #change #constancy #diminished #diversity

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

#cases #civil #each #earth #general