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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

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
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
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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

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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