“ There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. ”
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“ Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. ”
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“ 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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“ 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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“ Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. ”
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“ There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. ”
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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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“ God is related to the universe, as Creator and Preserver; the laws by which He created all things are those by which He preserves them. ”
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“ Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. ”
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“ The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. ”
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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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“ Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. ”
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“ There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ”
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“ The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. ”
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“ I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ”
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“ I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. ”
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“ I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ”
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“ I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. ”
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“ I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ”
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“ There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. ”
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“ The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. ”
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“ God is related to the universe, as Creator and Preserver; the laws by which He created all things are those by which He preserves them. ”
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“ Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. ”
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“ Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. ”
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“ Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved 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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“ Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. ”
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