One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUStudy has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
More Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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To lend money without interest, is certainly an action laudable and extremely good; but it is obvious, that it is only a counsel of religion, and not a civil law.
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Power should be a check on power.
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
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If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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A rational army would run away.
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They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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