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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

Baron de Montesquieu

The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.

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