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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

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Country Difficult Equal United States
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
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
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power

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