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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
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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Citizens May Order

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