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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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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. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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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. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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Power ought to serve as a check to power. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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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. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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