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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

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