A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA rational army would run away.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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A rational army would run away.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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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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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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