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“It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.” quote by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune — Download Open image

“It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.”

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

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The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the…

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If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his…

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All money is essentially merchandize.

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What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith…

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Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

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All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of…

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The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

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Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

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Every soil does not produce every material.

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Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

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The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that…

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