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Very Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those…
- There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
- Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
- No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak,…
- They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable…
- We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous…
- Very good laws may be ill timed.
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