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No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinationsUnknown
2
Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envyUnknown
3
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nationUnknown
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When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education. .. the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint. .. . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoyUnknown
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It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious aweUnknown