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The more men there are together, the more vain they are, and the more they feel arise within them the desire to call attention to themselves by small things.
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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
desire
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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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"The more men there are together, the more vain they are, and the more they feel arise within them the desire to call attention to themselves by small things." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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