The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart,… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A prince who loves and fears religion is a lion who stoops to the hand that strokes or to the voice that… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share
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