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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

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
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
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
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.
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Differences Independence Law
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated

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