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An admirable thing is the Christian religion: it seems to have no other end in view than happiness in the next world, and yet it also constitutes our happiness in this one.

— Montesquieu

Chose admirable! la religion chrétienne, qui ne semble avoir d'objet que la félicité de l'autre vie, fait encore notre bonheur dans celle-ci.

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