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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Baron de Montesquieu

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
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 deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men

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