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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de Montesquieu

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
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
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
…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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending

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