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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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
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Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
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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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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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