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

Baron de Montesquieu

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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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Aggression Order Two War

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