Quote by Montesquieu Download Open image ““I believe it to be true that if men were virtuous, they would have no friends.”” — Montesquieu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. If men were… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“A long time ago. I came to the understanding that all men are friends by convenience and enemies by choice.” — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The realization that men and women cannot be friends unless they're also sleeping together. I have enough friends, I don't really need any more.” — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
“I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Tis strange that it should be among such men that we find proofs of friendship and devotion.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“It is given to very few women to know the beauty of a man's real friendship.” — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“I want to have friends that I can trust, who love me for the man I've become…not the man that I was.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“If you believe in the idea of true friends, then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“I wanted to have friends from all over the world in the way of a man who has no friends.” — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.” — Jonathan Anthony Burkett Copy Share Image
“Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The public revenues are a portion that each subject gives of his property, in order to secure or enjoy the remainder.” — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
