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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men

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