I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage

Montesquieu

Tags: bibliophilia



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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

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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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La liberté est le droit de faire ce que les lois permettent.

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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

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il faut vivre avec les hommes tels qu ils sont : les gens qu on dit etre de si bonne compagnie ne sont souvent que ceux dont les vices sont plus raffines ; et peut-etre en est-il comme des poisons, dont les plus subtils sont aussi les plus dangereux.

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Virtue has need of limits.

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C est le tyran qui m outrage, et non pas celui qui exerce la tyrannie

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