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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Baron de Montesquieu

Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
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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Law Passion Powerful
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good

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