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 MONTESQUIEUExperience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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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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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.
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Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
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Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
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The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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