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Europe is a state with several provinces

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty
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
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
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
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
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
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
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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