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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.

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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
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
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use

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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