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A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. - Montesquieu
" "A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
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About Montesquieu
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), also known as Charles de Montesquieu, was a French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment and is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers.
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
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Charles Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu
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They maintain that all unlimited power must be unlawful, because it cannot have had a lawful origin. For, we cannot, say they, give to another more power over us than we ourselves have : now, we have not unlimited power over ourselves ; for example, we have no right to take our own lives: no one upon earth then, they conclude, had such a power.
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