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

Baron de Montesquieu

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
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
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship

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