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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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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Blind Intelligent World
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
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
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
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

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