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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
[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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Believe Kings Religion
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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