For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUFor a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty is the right to do what the law permits.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIn the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIt is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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 a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULiberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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 MONTESQUIEUTo become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUGreat commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUNot to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThat anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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