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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

Baron de Montesquieu

Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
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Government Law Republic
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
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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Gratitude Men Ties
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

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