Peace is a natural effect of trade.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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