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

Baron de Montesquieu

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty

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