Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThey who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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