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Baron de Montesquieu
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ✨ Persian Letters. Book by Montesquieu, 1721.
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With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness. ✨ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). The Spirit of Laws, p.440, Library of Alexandria
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. ✨ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). The Spirit of Laws, p.21, Library of Alexandria

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ✨ Persian Letters. Book by Montesquieu, 1721.

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