There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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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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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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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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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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