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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.

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There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
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Injustice Made Threat
If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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God Three Triangles
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
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Atheism Atheist Law
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.
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Giving Law Made
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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God Philosophical Two Sides
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
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Earth Law Political
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
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
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Discover Foolishness Wit
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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Human Justice Rights Threat
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing

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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