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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership

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