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

Baron de Montesquieu

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
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
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty

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