Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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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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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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