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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
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
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success

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