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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

Baron de Montesquieu

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
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
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Disappointment Reading Sovereign

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

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