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Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Baron de Montesquieu

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
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.
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Citizens Men Naked
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom

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