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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.
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Citizens May Order
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
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
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
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
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
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

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