The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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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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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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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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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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