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 MONTESQUIEUThe law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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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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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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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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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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