Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as inva…

Baron de Montesquieu
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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. ✨ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). The Spirit of Laws, p.15, Library of Alexandria
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