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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

If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Catching Running Succeed
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Disappointment Reading Sovereign
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
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
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Atheism Atheist Law

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