![[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.](/assets/img/quote-photos/montesquieu-lifted-the-veil-from-the-venerable-errors-which-enslaved-opinion-a.jpg)
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