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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

Baron de Montesquieu

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Law Name Tyrant
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
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Feels Intelligent Men
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
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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 history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
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
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
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

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