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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Baron de Montesquieu

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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
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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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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