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

Baron de Montesquieu

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Lunch Paris Philosophical
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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Law Liberty Umpires
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men

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