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Charles de Montesquieu Quotes

«This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.»
«It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.»
«The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.»
«Virtue has need of limits»
«I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself»
«Happy are the people whose annals are boring to read»
«Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.»
«There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window»
«Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free»
«An absolute ruler is an undesireable leader.»

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