By a misfortune attached to the human condition, great men who are moderate are rare; and, as it is always easier to follow one’s strength than to check it, perhaps, in the class of superior people, it is easier to find extremely virtuous people than extremely wise men.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic strength misfortune
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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