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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 Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
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Powerful Sick
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
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
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
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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Consecrate Impendere Life Truth
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

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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