Charles-Louis de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755) was a French writer and jurist.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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