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

Baron de Montesquieu

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
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
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards

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