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

Baron de Montesquieu

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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