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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
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
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated

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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