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

Baron de Montesquieu

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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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