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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Baron de Montesquieu

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government

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