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There is no virtue other than the love of Order. Without this love all virtues are false. We must not confuse duties with virtue. We are able to acquit ourselves of our duties without virtue. It is our failure to consult Reason which accounts for approving or following damnable customs. Faith serves, or leads to Reason; but Reason is the sovereign and universal law of all intelligent beings.
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Malebranche, N. (1993). Chapter Two. In: Treatise on Ethics (1684). International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées, vol 133. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2480-5_3
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