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 ..........................with Montesquieu:

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

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

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

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.