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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

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