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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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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
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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Cutting Government Tree
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
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Blood Kingdoms Philosophical
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
Virtue has needs of limits.
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Limits Needs Virtue
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
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Law Manners Want
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
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Magic Two Wisdom
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
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Idiot Shields Stupidity

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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