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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
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
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
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
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Philosophical Success Wise
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Country Freedom Wells
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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Country Difficult Equal United States
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
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Action Law Lending
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
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Country Humanity Patriotism
If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
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Catching Running Succeed
Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Gunpowder Men Secret
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality

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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