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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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