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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

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery

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

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