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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Baron de Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
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
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms 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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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

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