Doing good Quote by Montesquieu

“We are so blind that we know neither when to mourn, nor when to rejoice; our mirth and our sadness are nearly always false.”

— Montesquieu

“The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures. It is as if we enhance…

— Montesquieu

“The public revenues are a portion that each subject gives of his property, in order to secure or enjoy the remainder.”

— Montesquieu

“The right of conquest is not a right. A society can be founded only with the consent of its members. If it is destroyed…

— Montesquieu

“Nature repairs everything.”

— Montesquieu

“One of them said to me once, “I believe in the immortality of the soul for six months at a time; my opinions depend…

— Montesquieu

“History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars,…

— Montesquieu

“[92] Plato, in his fourth book of Laws, says that the præfectures of music and gymnic exercises are the most important employments in the…

— Montesquieu

“As with their fashions, so is it with their customs and style of living: French manners change with the age of the king. The…

— Montesquieu

“MOST legislators have been men of inferior capacity whom chance exalted over their fellows, and who took counsel almost exclusively of their own prejudices…

— Montesquieu

“Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in…

— Montesquieu

“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”

— Montesquieu