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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.

Baron de Montesquieu

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 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
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
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
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise

There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.

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