Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality. — Baron de Montesquieu Character Copy Share Image
I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. — Baron de Montesquieu Extremes Copy Share Image
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Delight Copy Share Image
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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 Crime Copy Share Image
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine… — Baron de Montesquieu Approach Copy Share Image
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest… — 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
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually… — Baron de Montesquieu Body Copy Share Image
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as… — Baron de Montesquieu Abuse Copy Share Image
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true,… — Baron de Montesquieu Being deceived 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
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently… — Baron de Montesquieu Age Copy Share Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there… — 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
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when,… — Baron de Montesquieu Color 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 Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have… — Baron de Montesquieu Beast Copy Share Image
Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our… — Baron de Montesquieu Advantage Copy Share Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu Cowardice Copy Share Image
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. — Baron de Montesquieu Affair Copy Share Image
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions — Baron de Montesquieu Action Copy Share Image
It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. — Baron de Montesquieu Government Copy Share Image
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws. — Baron de Montesquieu Customs Copy Share Image
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise. — Baron de Montesquieu Being wise Copy Share Image
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
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