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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
1764
CONTENTS ... Index
* Preface
* Adultery
* Advocate
* Ancients and Moderns
* Animals
* Antiquity
* Arts
* Astrology
* Atheism
* Authority
* Authors
* Banishment
* Bankruptcy
* Beauty
* Bishop
* Books
* Bouleverd
* Bourges
* Brahmins
* Character
* Charlatan
* Civil Laws
* Climate
* Common Sense
* Concatenation of Events
* Contradictions
* Corn
* Cromwell
* Customs
* Democracy
* Destiny
* Devout
* Ecclesiastical Ministry
* Emblem
* English Theatre, on the
* Envy
* Equality
* Expiation
* Extreme
* Ezourveidam
* Faith
* False Minds
* Fatherland
* Final Causes
* Fraud
* Free-will
* French
* Friendship
* God
* Helvetia
* History
* Ignorance
* Impious
* Joan of Arc
* Kissing
* Languages
* Laws
* Liberty
* Library
* Limits of the Human Mind
* Local Crimes
* Love
* Luxury
* Man
* Man in the Iron Mask
* Marriage
* Master
* Men of Letters
* Metamorphosis
* Milton, on the Reproach of Plagiarism Against
* Mohammedans
* Mountain
* Nakedness
* Natural Law
* Nature
* Necessary
* New Novelties
* Philosopher
* Power, Omnipotence
* Prayers
* Précis of Ancient Philosophy
* Prejudices
* Rare
* Reason
* Religion
* Sect
* Self-esteem
* Soul
* States, Governments
* Superstition
* Tears
* Theist
* Tolerance
* Truth
* Tyranny
* Virtue
* Why?
* Declaration of Admirers, Questioners and Doubters
... LINKS & RESOURCES
CIVIL LAWS
Extract from Some Notes found among a Lawyer's Papers, which maybe
merit Examination.
- Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing, and a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
- Let all laws be clear, uniform and precise: to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.
- Let nothing be infamous save vice.
- Let taxes be always proportional.
- Let the law never be contradictory to custom: for if the custom be good, the law is worthless.
