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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Abuse Authority Men
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
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
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
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
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Bad Nature Slavery States
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune

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