It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTrade is the best cure for prejudice.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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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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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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