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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
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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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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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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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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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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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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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