A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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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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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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