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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

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
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
[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.
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Believe Kings Religion

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