Liberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty… is there only when there is no abuse of power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNever create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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 wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUBetter 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 MONTESQUIEUThe less men think, the more they talk.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUKnowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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 MONTESQUIEUThe mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUA rational army would run away.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUI have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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