It is much worse when a woman has several husbands, for then paternal love depends only on the opinion which a father can believe if he wants, or which others can believe, that certain children belong to him.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic love opinion
Date 1748
Language English
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Note Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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