The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFriendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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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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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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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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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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