Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUCoffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
More Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
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One 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.
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The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
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There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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