I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUBetter it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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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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Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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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.
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A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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