I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThey 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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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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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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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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