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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick

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