The State Of Slavery Is In Its

There Is Still Another Inconvenieney In Conquests Made By Democracies; Their Government Is Ever Odious To The Conquered States. It Is Apparently Monarchical, But In Reality It Is More Oppressive Than Monarchy, As The Experience Of All Ages And Countries Evinces.

Friendship Is A Contract In Which We Render Small Services In Expectation Of Big Ones.

It Is Necessary From The Very Nature Of Things That Power Should Be A Check To Power.

Friendship Is An Arrangement By Which We Undertake To Exchange Small Favors For Big Ones.

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.