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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
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
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
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
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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