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

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Ambition Community Mind
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
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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Action Law Lending
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
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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

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