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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron de Montesquieu

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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