Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUCertain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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