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Nature, which has distinguished men by strength and by reason, has put no term to their power but the term of their strength and their reason.
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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Author
Montesquieu
Source
The Spirit of Law
Topic
strength
power
Date
1748
Language
English
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"Nature, which has distinguished men by strength and by reason, has put no term to their power but the term of their strength and their reason." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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