The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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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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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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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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There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.
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At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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