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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Baron de Montesquieu

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
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

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