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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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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Powerful Sick
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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

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