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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

Baron de Montesquieu

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

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