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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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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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Country Men Nothing Worth
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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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Ambition Community Mind
…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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Corruption Law Republic
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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