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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Baron de Montesquieu

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
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
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
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
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
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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Country Criminals Tests
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men

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