The Laws Do Not Take Upon Them

Republics Come To An End By Luxurious Habits; Monarchies By Poverty.

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.

It Is Requisite The Government Be So Constituted As One Man Need Not Be Afraid Of Another.

We Receive Three Educations, One From Our Parents, One From Our School-masters, And One From The World. The Third Contradicts All That The First Two Teach Us.

Knowledge Humanizes Mankind, And Reason Inclines To Mildness; But Prejudices Eradicate Every Tender Disposition.