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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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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Luxury Perfect Republic
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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Politics Republic Wisdom
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
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
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
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims

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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