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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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 alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
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
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous

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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