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In a time of ignorance, one has no doubts even while doing the greatest evils; in an enlightened age, one trembles even while doing the greatest goods.
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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Montesquieu
Source
The Spirit of Law
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ignorance
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Date
1748
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English
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"In a time of ignorance, one has no doubts even while doing the greatest evils; in an enlightened age, one trembles even while doing the greatest goods." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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