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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

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

God Three Triangles
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
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
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
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Law Passion Powerful
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
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
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Equality Men War
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
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Age Men Passion
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
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Education School Two
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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Extremes Mankind Moderation
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion 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
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Punishment Remedy Sick

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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