Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUHappy the people whose annals are tiresome.
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 MONTESQUIEUI shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThose who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUStudy has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour’s reading would not dissipate.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUDo you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFriendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPeople here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
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