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• Peace is a natural effect of trade.

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  Philosophical, Natural, Trade

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• If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

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  Men, Ruins, Firsts

  "Pensées et Fragments Inédits de Montesquieu" by Baron de Montesquieu, 1899.

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• The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

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  Luxury, Perfect, Republic

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.135, Library of Alexandria

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• The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

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  Men, Majority, Deeds

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• There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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  Gratitude, Men, Ties

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 104 (Usbek writing to Ibben), 1721.

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• Honor is unknown in despotic states.

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  Honor, States, Despotism

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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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  Real, War, Law

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.19, Library of Alexandria

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• Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

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  Country, Freedom, Wells

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• 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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  Law, Political, Earth

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

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  Democracy, Republic, Taste

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that appeases him. He who fears and hates religion is like the savage beast that growls and bites the chain, which prevents his flying on the passenger. He who has no religion at all is that terrible animal who perceives his liberty only when he tears in pieces, and when he devours.

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  Hate, Animal, Hands

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

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  Impossible, Maxims

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• The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

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  Success, Knowing, Long

  "Pensées Diverses". Book by Baron de Montesquieu,

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• 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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  Doors, Doe, Window

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• I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

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  Success, Wise, Philosophical

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• The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

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  Love, Forgiveness, Philosophy

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• Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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  Law

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• When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

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  Ambition, Community, Mind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!

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  Praise, Empty

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 50, en.wikiquote.org. 1721.

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• Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

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  Law, Relation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 375), 1895.

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• There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

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  War, Civil War, Kingdoms

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• The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

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  Busy, Polite

  'Pensèes et fragments inèdits de Montesquieu' vol. 2 (1901) no. 1428

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• 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

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• Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

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  Luxury, Republic, Poverty

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• Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.

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  Christian, Kings, Hate

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, Letter No. 60, 1721.

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