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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

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
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger

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