An Injustice To One Is A Threat

Brutes Are Deprived Of The High Advantages Which We Have; But They Have Some Which We Have Not. They Have Not Our Hopes, But Theyare Without Our Fears; They Are Subject Like Us To Death, But Without Knowing It; Even Most Of Them Are More Attentive Than We To Self-preservation, And Do Not Make So Bad A Use Of Their Passions.

Those Who Have Few Affairs To Attend To Are Great Speakers. The Less Men Think, The More They Talk.

The Alms Given To A Naked Man In The Street Do Not Fulfil The Obligations Of The State, Which Owes To Every Citizen A Certain Subsistence, A Proper Nourishment, Convenient Clothing, And A Kind Of Life Not Incompatible With Health.

They Who Assert That A Blind Fatality Produced The Various Effects We Behold In This World Talk Very Absurdly; For Can Anything Be More Unreasonable Than To Pretend That A Blind Fatality Could Be Productive Of Intelligent Beings.

It Is Clear That In A Monarchy, Where He Who Commands The Exceution Of The Laws Generally Thinks Himself Above Them, There Is Lessneed Of Virtue Than In A Popular Government, Where The Person Entrusted With The Execution Of The Laws Is Sensible Of His Being Subject To Their Direction.