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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu
Montesquieu
Born: Jan 18, 1689
Died: Feb 10, 1755

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Law, Political, Nation, Ought, Earth, Civil, Cases, General, Laws, Only, Particular, Governs, Human, Which, Inasmuch, Inhabitants, Reason, Human Reason, Each, Applied

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Albert Camus, Blaise Pascal, Henri Bergson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Simone Weil
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