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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Montesquieu
Born: January 18, 1689
Died: February 10, 1755 (aged 66)
Bio: Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.
Known for:
- The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
- Persian Letters (1721)
- Selected Political Writings
- The political theory of Montesquieu
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