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It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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 necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
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
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
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
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 prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions

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