There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFriendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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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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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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