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

Baron de Montesquieu

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

Bigs Favors Friendship
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
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
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People

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