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

Baron de Montesquieu

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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

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