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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Baron de Montesquieu

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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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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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Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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