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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
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
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

God Philosophical Two Sides

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