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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

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical 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
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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