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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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Natural Philosophical Trade
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
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
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
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
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

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