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

Baron de Montesquieu

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty

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