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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Baron de Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
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.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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
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
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking

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