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Charles de Secondat

"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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"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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Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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Donna Grant

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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"Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."
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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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"You have to study a great deal to know a little."
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"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."
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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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"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
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Charles de Secondat
"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 law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."
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Charles de Secondat
"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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"Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans."
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