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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

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