Power ought to serve as a check to power.

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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

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You have to study a great deal to know a little.

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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

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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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Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

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I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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