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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.

To Love To Read Is To Exchange Hours Of Ennui For Hours Of Delight.

It Is Clear That In A Monarchy, Where He Who Commands The Exceution Of The Laws Generally Thinks Himself Above Them, There Is Lessneed Of Virtue Than In A Popular Government, Where The Person Entrusted With The Execution Of The Laws Is Sensible Of His Being Subject To Their Direction.

We Must Have Constantly Present In Our Minds The Difference Between Independence And Liberty. Liberty Is A Right Of Doing Whatever The Laws Permit, And If A Citizen Could Do What They Forbid He Would No Longer Be Possessed Of Liberty.

Useless Laws Weaken The Necessary Laws.