False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Baron de MontesquieuReligious 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.
Baron de MontesquieuI have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
Baron de Montesquieu