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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
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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Age Men Passion
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins

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