Montesquieu's Quotes

Montesquieu's Quotes 37

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of...

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a...

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

The less men think, the more they talk.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between...

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never...

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he...

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists...

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors...

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from...

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to...

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

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