I've never known any trouble that an hour's worth of reading didn't assauge - Montesquieu

Il y a chez les sauvages une autre coutume qui n'est pas moins pernicieuse que la première : c'est la cruelle habitude où sont les femmes de se faire avorter, afin que leur grossesse ne les rende pas désagréables à leurs maris.

Ce corps a quarante têtes, toutes remplies de figures, de métaphores et d'antithèses; tant de bouches ne parlent que par exclamation;

Christians 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 fulfill its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.