I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVirtue has needs of limits.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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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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Europe is a state with several provinces
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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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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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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