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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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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Difficult People Since Thinking
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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