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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
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
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
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
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat

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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