Very good laws may be ill timed. ✨ The Spirit of the Laws. Book by Bar…

Baron de Montesquieu
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Very good laws may be ill timed. ✨ The Spirit of the Laws. Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXXI: Theory of the Feudal Laws Among the Franks in Relation they Bear to the Revolutions of their Monarchy, Ch. 21: The Same Subject continued, 1748.
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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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Very good laws may be ill timed. ✨ The Spirit of the Laws. Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXXI: Theory of the Feudal Laws Among the Franks in Relation they Bear to the Revolutions of their Monarchy, Ch. 21: The Same Subject continued, 1748.

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