A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFor a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Virtue has needs of limits.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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