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There is nothing worse than anarchy, that is to say living without government and without laws.

— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Treatise on the Knowledge of God and of One's Self (1677)

[I]l n'y a rien de pire que l'anarchie, c'est-a-dire de vivre sans gouvernement et sans lois.

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Source: Ch. I, § xiii, p. 63
Work: Treatise on the Knowledge of God and of One's Self, 1677
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