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Is the ill of changing always less than the ill of suffering?
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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Montesquieu
Source
The Spirit of Law
Topic
suffering
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Date
1748
Language
English
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"Is the ill of changing always less than the ill of suffering?" Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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