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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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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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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