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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

Baron de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
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 is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

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What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

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