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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

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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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Bankers Country Jobs
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War

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