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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality

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