Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish...

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish...

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

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

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

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without...

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without...

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law...

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law...

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

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

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.