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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

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
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
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant

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

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