The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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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 English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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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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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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