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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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

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