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Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Baron de Montesquieu

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 body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should

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