For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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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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For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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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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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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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Europe is a state with several provinces
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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[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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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Better 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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