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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

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

May Obliged Wander
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Learning Men Science
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
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Book Suffering Writing
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Delight Dull Reading
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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Administration Power Use
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
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
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Differences Independence Law
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
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
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Machines Passion Ruins

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