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Baron de Montesquieu

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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
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
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
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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Democracy Fall Spirit
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments

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