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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Baron de Montesquieu

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork

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