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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

Baron de Montesquieu

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
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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Law Passion Powerful
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power

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