Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULove of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMen, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAt our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUReligious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUExperience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUEvery man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
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