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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
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
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
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing

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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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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