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

Baron de Montesquieu

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
[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
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men

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