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The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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I should like to abolish funerals the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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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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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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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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The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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