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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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
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
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
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political Republic
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People

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