A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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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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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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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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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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