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Montesquieu
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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
— No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek)
Montesquieu
French philosopher (1689–1755)
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He gave the modern world its blueprint for dividing government power — executive, legislative, judicial — and the word "despotism" as a permanent fixture in political argument.
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Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher born 18 January 1689. In 1748 he published The Spirit of Law anonymously, a work that laid out the theory of separation of powers and secured "despotism" in the political lexicon. The book found eager readers in Great Britain and the American colonies; Thomas Nugent's 1750 English translation reached the men who would draft the U.S. Constitution, and they lifted the framework whole. Montesquieu died 10 February 1755, having sketched the architecture most democr…
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Montesquieu
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[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
— No. 19. (Usbek writing to Rustan)
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.
— No. 24. (Rica writing to Ibben)
Montesquieu
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I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
— No. 29. (Rica writing to Ibben)
Montesquieu
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Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
— No. 35. (Usbek writing to Gemchid)
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