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Baron de Montesquieu

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
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
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform

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