I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA rational army would run away.
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 MONTESQUIEU…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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 MONTESQUIEUFriendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULove of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo 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.
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 MONTESQUIEUPeace is a natural effect of trade.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWhen God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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