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" A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. "
Charles de Secondat
Death
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" There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. "
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" The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. "
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" 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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" The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. "
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" Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. "
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" In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. "
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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. "
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" Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. "
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" Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. "
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" People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout. "
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" I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. "
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Wanting
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" Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. "
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Human
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" Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. "
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" Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. "
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Speaking
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" Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us. "
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" Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. "
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" There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. "
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" There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. "
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Two
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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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