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Baron de Montesquieu

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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Divorce Given Moments
What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.
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Fear Men Silly
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
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Gambling Government Three
Power should be a check on power.
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Checks Evil Good
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
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
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
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Despise Fool Law Men
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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Government Order Political
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse
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Believe Gratitude People
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
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Men People Teamwork
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Despotism Honor States
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
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

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