It is present only when power is not abused, but it has eternally been observed that any man who has power is led to abuse it; he continues until he finds limits.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic power present
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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