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

Baron de Montesquieu

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
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
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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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Blind Intelligent World
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom

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