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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.

Baron de Montesquieu

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.

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