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In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

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The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
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Crime People Progress
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
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Age Birthday People
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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Cutting Politics Progression Smooth
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
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
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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Atheism Atheist Law
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Democracy Nerd People
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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Empty Orignal Praise
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
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Men Succession Vain
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

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