A quotation from Montesquieu

The gods […] have attached to liberty almost as many misfortunes as to servitude.
 
[Les dieux […] ont attaché à la liberté presque autant de malheurs qu’à la servitude.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Essay (1724-02), “Dialogue of Sulla and Eucrates [Dialogue de Sylla et d’Eucrate] [Sulla], Mercure de France [tr. Carrithers / Stewart (2020)]


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