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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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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Government Order Political
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
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 state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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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