I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU MayObligedWander
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU DegreesKnowing
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU Wells
I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow. BARON DE MONTESQUIEU CertainSlow
