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Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Baron de Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims

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