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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

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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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Giving Men Slavery
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

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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