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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Baron de Montesquieu

Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
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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Arguing People Religion
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

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