The important men there are so heavily punished by disgrace, by the often-imaginary loss of their fortune, their credit, their habits, and their pleasures, that strictness in respect to them is useless
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic loss pleasure
Date 1748
Language English
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Note Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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