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Man Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
- Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the…
- But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it…
- Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
- Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master…
- There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
- As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of…
- Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
- A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
- Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
- It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
- Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
- Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
- If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am…
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