Honor is unknown in despotic states.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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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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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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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.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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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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