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People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Baron de Montesquieu

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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Divorce Given Moments
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
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Enough Reason Sophisticated
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
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
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
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Country Criminals Tests
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
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Body Diversity Movement
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
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Confidence Hands Mediocrity
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
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Favor Government People

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