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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
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
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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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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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