Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPower ought to serve as a check to power.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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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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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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