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

Baron de Montesquieu

Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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
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 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.
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Aggression Order Two War
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society

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