An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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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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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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