"If I knew something useful to me and harmful to my family, I should put it out of my mind. If I knew something useful to my family and not to my country, I should try to forget it. If I knew something useful to my country and harmful to Europe, or useful to Europe and harmful to the human race, I should consider it a crime."
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Charles de Montesquieu, as quoted by Robert John Loy, Montesquieu (1968), ch. 3, p. 122
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