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The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Contract Expectation Friendship
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Education School Two
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Abuse Peace Tendencies
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs

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