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" "a conqueror, I say, can change the course of everything, and muffled tyranny is the first thing which is liable to violence.
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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They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.
A fool ought to be satisfied with having bored all his own contemporaries, but he also seeks to torment those as yet unborn; he wants his stupidity to triumph over oblivion, which he might, like the tomb, have enjoyed; but no, he wants posterity to be notified that he has lived, and he wants her to know, for all eternity, that he was an idiot.
إذا رأت قوانين دولة معاناة أديان كثيرة وجب عليها أن تلزم هذه الأديان بالتسامح نحو بعضها بعضًا، ومن المبادئ أن يصبح كل دين مزجور زاجرًا، وذلك أنه إذا استطاع الخروج من دائرة الضغط مصادفة لم يلبث أن يهاجم الدين الذي ضغطه عن طغيان، لا عن دين. ومن المفيد، إذن أن تطلب القوانين من هذه الأديان المختلفة ألا يكدر بعضها صفو بعض فضلًا عن عدم تكدير صفو الدولة، ولا يعد المواطن مطيعًا للقوانين مطلقًا باقتصاره على عدم تكدير كيان الدولة، بل يجب عليه أيضًا، ألا يكدر أحدًا من المواطنين أيًّا كان.