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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Civil War Kingdoms War
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Firsts Men Ruin
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Hate Running Thinking
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Checks Power Should
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May

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