Virtue has needs of limits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTrade is the best cure for prejudice.
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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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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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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To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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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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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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