A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Montesquieu

3 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.— filed under Law
How admirable is that religion which, while it seems to have in view only the felicity of another world, is at the same time the highest happiness of this.— filed under Religion
It is the half-way religion that undoes the professing world. The heart can never be at unity with itself till it is wholly centered in God. Religion gives to virtue the sweetest hopes, to unrepenting vice just alarms, to true repentance the most powerful consolations; but she endeavors above all things to inspire in men love, meekness, and piety. -— filed under Religion
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