If one surpasses the others in the number and courage of one’s companions, one is famous in one’s own nation and among the neighboring peoples
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic courage surpassing
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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