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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
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
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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Punishment Remedy Sick
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 only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States

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