There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is …

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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ✨ Lettres Persanes by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 104 (Usbek writing to Ibben), 1721.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ✨ Lettres Persanes by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 104 (Usbek writing to Ibben), 1721.

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