If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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A 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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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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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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