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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Baron de Montesquieu

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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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Law Passion Powerful
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical

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