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Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical

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