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

Baron de Montesquieu

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
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
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very

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