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I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Baron de Montesquieu

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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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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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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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