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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 requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
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
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
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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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
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

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