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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

Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
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
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty

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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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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