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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

Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
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 fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use

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