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

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Democracy Equality Love
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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