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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

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Future Life Philosophical
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
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
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
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Certain Foolishness Kind
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
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
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
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Aunt Believe East
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
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Cures Prejudice Trade
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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Government Liberty Political
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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Contract Expectation Friendship
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Day Happy Independence Law Liberty
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time

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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