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Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
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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Despotism Honor Political Republic
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty

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