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
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUEurope is a state with several provinces
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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