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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.  
Every country has the government it deserves.  
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable m...  
If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil...  
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence,...  
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is co...  
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.  
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, alway...  
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his e...  
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chai...  
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is go...