[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that th…

Baron de Montesquieu
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[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind. ✨ Lettres Persanes by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 24, 1721.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. ✨ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). The Spirit … ▶
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