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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

Baron de Montesquieu

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
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
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
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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