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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
[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
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical

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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