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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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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Religion Religious War
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
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
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

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