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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

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