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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.

Baron de Montesquieu

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
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
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
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 public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
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Government Long Luxury
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
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading

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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