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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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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Body Honor Thinking
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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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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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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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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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade

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