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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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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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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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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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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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