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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
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
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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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Law Passion Powerful
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical

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