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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

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
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
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
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
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity

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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