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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
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
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War

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