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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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"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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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."
"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."
"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."
"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
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