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The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
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Government Men Needs
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
The spirit of commerce… renders every man willing to live on his own property…& prevents the growth of luxury.
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Growth Luxury Men
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Given Philosophical Talent
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
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
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one’s wit at the expense of one’s better nature.
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Favors Talking Wit
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
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Equality Law Men
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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Body Diversity Movement
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Checks Ought Power
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

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

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