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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

There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
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
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion

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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