The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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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.
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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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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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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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