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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The 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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Law Real War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
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
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

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