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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
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
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
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 tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
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
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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

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