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

Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
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
There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
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 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
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study

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