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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
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
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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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Equality Men War
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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