Montesquieu - Life Quotes

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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

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The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

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Study has been my sovereign remedy against the worries of life. I have never had a care that an hour's reading could not dispel.

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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

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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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