Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEURepublics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUOne 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 MONTESQUIEUCoffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEURepublics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUBut constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWe receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThose who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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 MONTESQUIEUThere is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAs soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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