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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

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Apathy Democracy Wisdom
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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Business Certain Motion Quick Slow
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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Character Giving Leadership
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
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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Library Men Reading
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Commerce Communication People
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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Adventure Empires Greatness
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies

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.

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