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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

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
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 one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking

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

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