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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.

Baron de Montesquieu

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
A rational army would run away.
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Army Running War
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
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom

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