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Baron de Montesquieu

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

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