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Vanity And Pride Of Nations; Vanity Is As Advantageous To A Government As Pride Is Dangerous.

Men Should Be Bewailed At Their Birth, And Not At Their Death.

Democracy Is Corrupted Not Only When The Spirit Of Equality Is Corrupted, But Likewise When They Fall Into A Spirit Of Extreme Equality.

Laws, In Their Most General Signification, Are The Necessary Relations Arising From The Nature Of Things. In This Sense All Beings Have Their Laws: The Deity His Laws, The Material World Its Laws, The Intelligences Superior To Man Their Laws, The Beasts Their Laws, Man His Laws.

To Lend Money Without Interest, Is Certainly An Action Laudable And Extremely Good; But It Is Obvious, That It Is Only A Counsel Of Religion, And Not A Civil Law.