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• Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

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  Wise, Coffee, People

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• I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

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  Paradise, Description, Sensible

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 125, 1721.

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• The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

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  Order, Long, Riches

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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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• The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

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  Mind, Prejudice, Superstitions

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.367, Library of Alexandria

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• In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

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  Shapes, States, Institutions

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• If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

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  Running, Succeed, Catching

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• Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.

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  Men, Secret, Gunpowder

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• Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

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  Writing, Simplicity, Facts

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.456, Library of Alexandria

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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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• Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

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  Thinking, Religion, Gods Will

  "Lettres Persanes" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 35, 1721.

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• Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

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  Clever, Injustice, Threat

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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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  Envy, Cowardice, Fortune

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• Europe is a state with several provinces

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  Country, Europe, States

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• If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

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  Gratitude, Believe, People

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• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

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  Men, Giving, Slavery

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

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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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  Believe, Vanity, Miracle

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• When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

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  Law, Liberty, Enforcement

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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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  Passion, Men, Age

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• [The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.

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  Kings, Believe, Religion

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 24, 1721.

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• It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.

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  Thinking, Government, Law

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• Honor is unknown in despotic states.

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  Honor, States, Despotism

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• There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

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  Gambling, Government, Three

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.21, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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