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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

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
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
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 we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
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
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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Another Execute Impossible Maxims
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
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Art History Philosophy
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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Citizens Men Society
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
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
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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History People Vacant

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