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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

Baron de Montesquieu

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic

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