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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

Baron de Montesquieu

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
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
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
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

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