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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

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
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Government Law Thinking
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

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