Charles de Secondat Quotes
- A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
- I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
- The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
- Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
- Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
- I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
- There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
- The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.