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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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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A rational army would run away.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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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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Europe is a state with several provinces
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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