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 MontesquieuSuccess in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Baron de MontesquieuEach particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Baron de MontesquieuChristians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.
Baron de Montesquieu