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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

Baron de Montesquieu

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should

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