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

Baron de Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue

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