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In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Baron de Montesquieu

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Checks Ought Power
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence

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