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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

Baron de Montesquieu

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
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
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury

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