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More from Charles de Montesquieu

  1. [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

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  2. [The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread...and a thousand other things of the same kind.

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  3. I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

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