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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

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Enforcement Law Liberty
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
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
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
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Away Carried Gentle Rivers
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
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Lunch Paris Philosophical
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
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
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Forgiveness Love Philosophy
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Freedom Liberty Missing

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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