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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

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Example Law Morality
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
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
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
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
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States

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