black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Baron de Montesquieu

Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Cleanly Feel Passion
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Law Manners Want
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Despotism Honor Political Republic
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Punishment Remedy Sick
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Defense Men Reason
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Animal Men Society
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Luxury Republic Tyrants
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Civil War Kingdoms War
Better it is to say that the government most comfortable to nature is that which best agrees with the humor and disposition of the people in whose favor it is established.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Favor Government People
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Corruption Degrees Government
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Citizens Men Naked
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

History People Vacant
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Feels Intelligent Men
Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Clever Injustice Threat
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Earth Law Political

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Baron de Montesquieu Quotes