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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

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
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
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
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 suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
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Institutions Shapes States
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
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
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
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
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Clever Injustice Threat
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
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Divorce Given Moments

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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