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

Baron de Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
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
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity

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