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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron de Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
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
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
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
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

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