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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

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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Philosophical Success Time
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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Blind Intelligent World
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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Nature Proportion Rewards
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
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Ambition Community Mind
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
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Believe Miracle Vanity
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
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Delight Hours Philosophical
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
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Christian Liberty Stranger

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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