Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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“Religion gives to virtue the sweetest hopes, to unrepenting vice just alarms, to true repentance the most powerful consolations; but she endeavors above all things to inspire in men love, meekness, and piety.”
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