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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Believe Miracle Vanity
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
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
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Justice Protection Tyranny

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