Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUCountries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUIf you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUWe must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAn author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAn injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe English are busy; they don’t have time to be polite.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUChristianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUTo become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUPower ought to serve as a check to power.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULife was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUVirtue is necessary to a republic.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThere is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUThe life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUAn empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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.
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