Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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