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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.

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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
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
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
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
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
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
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

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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