"If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to..."

By: vivian on segunda-feira, março 06, 2017

“If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.”

- Montesquieu, a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher during the Age of Enlightenment

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