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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
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
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing

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