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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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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Government Law Republic
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise

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