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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

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
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
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
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Democracy Fall Spirit
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
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

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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