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

Baron de Montesquieu

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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

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

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