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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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One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
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Body Giving Law
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
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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Law Real War
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
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Country Fertility Liberty
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
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Enforcement Law Liberty

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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