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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy

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