“There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude…we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.”

—  Montesquieu

No. 104. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

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French social commentator and political thinker 1689–1755

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