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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
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
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

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