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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

You have to study a great deal to know a little.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Learning Littles Study
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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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Religious Spirit War

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

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