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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

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
The English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
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Busy English Polite Time
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Justice Protection Tyranny
Europe is a state with several provinces
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Country Province Several State
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
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Country Debt World
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
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Government Law Three
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
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Liberty Light States
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.
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Hands Heart might
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
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Body Honor Thinking

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