There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTalent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUYou have to study a great deal to know a little.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMan, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUEver since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHonor is unknown in despotic states.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.
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