But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Baron de MontesquieuThe crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
Baron de MontesquieuThus 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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