One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
Baron de MontesquieuVanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
Baron de MontesquieuDo you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Baron de MontesquieuThere is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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