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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

Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
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
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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

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