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You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
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
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
They 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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Blind Intelligent World

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