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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
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.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking

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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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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