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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
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
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
…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

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