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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

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Execution Law Philosophical
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Bankers Country Jobs
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Adventure Empires Greatness
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
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
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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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Giving Men Slavery
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Knowing Long Success

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