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

Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation

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