In The Infancy Of Societies, The Chiefs

Honor Is Unknown In Despotic States.

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

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.

The Pagan Religion, Which Prohibited Only Some Of The Grosser Crimes, And Which Stopped The Hand But Meddled Not With The Heart, Might Have Crimes That Were Inexplicable.

There Are Countries Where A Man Is Worth Nothing; There Are Others Where He Is Worth Less Than Nothing.