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Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
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
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
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Law Mankind Wickedness
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
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
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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Accomplish Adventure Adventurous
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

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