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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

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Government Liberty
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
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
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
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Act Law Overt Punish
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
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism Honor Political 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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