Peace is a natural effect of trade.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe 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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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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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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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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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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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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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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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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