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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

Baron de Montesquieu

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Knowing Long Success
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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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Country Criminals Tests
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
…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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Corruption Law Republic
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War

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