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'works', 'Morality and Art' and 'The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757)'
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / d. Non-combatants
20001
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The only right victors have over captives is the protection of the former [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society
19973
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The clergy are essential to a monarchy, but dangerous in a republic [Montesquieu]
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20011
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Religion can support the state when the law fails to do so [Montesquieu]
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19987
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Religion has the most influence in despotic states, and reinforces veneration for the ruler [Montesquieu]
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20004
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French slavery was accepted because it was the best method of religious conversion [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
11150
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it [Aristotle]
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19979
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In monarchies education ennobles people, and in despotisms it debases them [Montesquieu]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
3037
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Aristotle said the educated were superior to the uneducated as the living are to the dead [Aristotle, by Diog. Laertius]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
19957
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Teaching is the best practice of the general virtue that leads us to love everyone [Montesquieu]
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