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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

Baron de Montesquieu

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Believe Miracle Vanity
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Firsts Men Ruin

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

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