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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Baron de Montesquieu

Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty

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