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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

Baron de Montesquieu

Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
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
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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 spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
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

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