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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Baron de Montesquieu

Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
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 Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
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
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked

In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

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