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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
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

A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

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