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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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.
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Religion Religious War
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade

To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.

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