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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 are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
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
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Arguing People Religion
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
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

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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