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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.

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  Divorce, Moments, Given

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.606, Library of Alexandria

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• The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

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  Knowing, Degrees, Different

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.268, Library of Alexandria

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• Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

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  Confidence, Hands, Mediocrity

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• A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

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  Writing, People, Style

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• One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

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  Law, Giving, Body

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• 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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  Equality, Democracy

  "The Spirit of Laws".

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• 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

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

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  Political, Honor, Would Be

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• 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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  Atheist, Law, Atheism

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

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  God, Nature, Science

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.

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  Nature, Rewards, Proportion

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.279, Library of Alexandria

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• Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

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  Friendship, Favors, Bigs

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• 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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  Men, Law, Fool

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• The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.

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  Country, Tests, Criminals

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• When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

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  People, Nerd, Democracy

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.22, Library of Alexandria

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• We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

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  Wisdom, Two, Magic

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• An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

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  Life, Philosophical, Future

  "Persian Letters". Book by Montesquieu, 1721.

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• A rational army would run away.

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  Running, War, Army

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• The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

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  Men, Society, Citizens

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.186, Library of Alexandria

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• Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

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  Fashion, Art, Spring

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• Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

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  Success, Time, Philosophical

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• The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

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  People, Progress, Crime

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.253, Library of Alexandria

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• The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

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  Law, Wickedness, Mankind

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.125, Library of Alexandria

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• Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

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  Rivers, Gentle, Carried Away

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.415, Library of Alexandria

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• Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.

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  Order, Citizens, May

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