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Quotes from Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline — Montesquieu

1689–1755 France

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No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice — when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves.

Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (1876)

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