It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPeace is a natural effect of trade.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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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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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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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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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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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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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 culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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