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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Age Men Passion
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason

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