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The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

Baron de Montesquieu

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
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Men Politics Republican
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Talking Thinking
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Luxury Poverty Republic
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
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Country Government Reality
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Law Real War
Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
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Abuse Liberty Power
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
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Cutting Government Tree
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Birth Men Philosophical
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
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Believe Kings Religion
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness

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