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

Baron de Montesquieu

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
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

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