The effect of the wealth of a country is to fill all hearts with ambition; the effect of poverty is to bring them to despair.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic wealth poverty
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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