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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

Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking

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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