Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEURepublics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAn author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSolemnity is the shield of idiots
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMediocrity is a hand-rail.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMan is a social animal formed to please in society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNot to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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 MONTESQUIEUVitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUMen should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULaw should be like death, which spares no one.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUChristianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUSlavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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