#is

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

— Charles de Secondat

#death #his #man #mourned #should

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

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#ally #attacked #been #cases #enemy

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#act #arbitrary #atheists #could #creation

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening. ↗

— David Sedaris

#do you know #how #know #laughing #listening

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean? ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#cult #cult thing #expected #hired #i