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In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.

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
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
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
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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Men Speak Writing
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
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
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
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune

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