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

Baron de Montesquieu

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
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Knowing Long Success
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree

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