The love of the public good can be such that it equals or surpasses any other love. This is why Plato wanted magistrates to regulate marriages; this is why the Lacedaemonian magistrates directed them.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic marriage love
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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