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Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Giving Men Slavery
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War

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