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

Baron de Montesquieu

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Feels Intelligent Men
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
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 clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Government Law Thinking
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish

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