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Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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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Character Giving Leadership
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
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
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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
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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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant

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