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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
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
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
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
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue

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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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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