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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

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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
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
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical 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
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
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
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
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality

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

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