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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

Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Abuse Liberty Power
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Firsts Men Ruin
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
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
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
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
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
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Cures Prejudice Trade
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People

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