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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
- Montesquieu
#Feel
#Society
#State
#Strength
#War
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
- Montesquieu
#Act
#Creation
#Creator
#Rules
#World
There 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.
- Montesquieu
#Door
#Find
#Fortune
#Life
#Window
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
- Montesquieu
#Bored
#Come
#Content
#Fool
#Who
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
- Montesquieu
#Depth
#Lack
#Length
#Make
#Up
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.
- Montesquieu
#Change
#Diversity
#Lost
#Matter
#Motion
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
- Montesquieu
#Fortune
#Life
#Man
#Power
#Right
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
- Montesquieu
#Because
#Great
#Paved
#Reason
#Romans
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
- Montesquieu
#Aggression
#Enemy
#Help
#Order
#War
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
- Montesquieu
#Being
#Laws
#Like
#Man
#Physical
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
- Montesquieu
#Acts
#Laws
#Only
#Punish
#Undertake
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
- Montesquieu
#Execution
#Laws
#Prevents
#Severity
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
- Montesquieu
#Abandon
#Favor
#Life
#May
#Me
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
- Montesquieu
#Birth
#Death
#His
#Man
#Should
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
- Montesquieu
#Knowing
#Long
#Succeed
#Success
#Will
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
- Montesquieu
#Better
#Expense
#Favor
#Nature
#Wit
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
- Montesquieu
#Gift
#God
#Reveal
#Talent
#Us
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
- Montesquieu
#Go
#Paradise
#Person
#Sensible
#Stop
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Montesquieu
#Boring
#Fool
#Future Generations
#Future
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
- Montesquieu
#God
#Religion
#Reveal
#Think
#Will
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
- Montesquieu
#Birth
#Death
#Men
#Should
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
- Montesquieu
#Countries
#Fertile
#Free
#Well
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
- Montesquieu
#Good
#Law
#Peace
#Time
#War
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
- Montesquieu
#Half
#Lunch
#Other
#Paris
#Supper
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
- Montesquieu
#Alone
#Believe
#Born
#Knowledge
#Us
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
- Montesquieu
#Effect
#Natural
#Peace
#Trade
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
- Montesquieu
#Honorable
#Mass
#Men
#People
#Who
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
- Montesquieu
#Circumstances
#Long
#Succeed
#Success
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
- Montesquieu
#Earth
#Law
#Nation
#Political
#Reason
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
- Montesquieu
#Big
#Exchange
#Friendship
#Small
#Which
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
- Montesquieu
#Always
#Empires
#Great Things
#Great
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
- Montesquieu
#Happiness
#Men
#True Happiness
#True
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
- Montesquieu
#Delight
#Exchange
#Love
#Read
#To Love
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
- Montesquieu
#About
#People
#Religion
#Same
#See
#Time
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
- Montesquieu
#Bond
#Gratitude
#Men
#Power
#Us
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
- Montesquieu
#Happy
#People
#Tiresome
#Whose
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
- Montesquieu
#Administration
#Degree
#Knowing
#Power
The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
- Montesquieu
#Bad
#Nature
#Own
#State
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
- Montesquieu
#Chiefs
#Institutions
#Shape
#State
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
- Montesquieu
#First
#I Am
#Man
#Nation
#Ruin
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
- Montesquieu
#End
#Luxury
#Poverty
#Republics
#Through
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
- Montesquieu
#Government
#Republican
#Species
#Three
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
- Montesquieu
#Day
#Lose
#May
#Nation
#Them
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
- Montesquieu
#Luxury
#Poverty
#Republics
#Ruins
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
- Montesquieu
#Age
#Corruption
#Mature
#People
#Young
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
- Montesquieu
#Fear
#Nation
#Passion
#Powerful
#Reason
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
- Montesquieu
#Doing
#Laws
#Liberty
#Right
#Whatever
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
- Montesquieu
#Conquest
#Object
#Preservation
#Victory
#War
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
- Montesquieu
#Blind
#Intelligent
#More
#Talk
#World
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
- Montesquieu
#Deal
#Great Deal
#Great
#Know
#Little
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
- Montesquieu
#Always
#Fool
#Succeed
#Wise
#World
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
- Montesquieu
#Knowing
#Long
#Succeed
#Success
#Things
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
- Montesquieu
#Empire
#Founded
#Itself
#Maintain
#War
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
- Montesquieu
#Human
#More
#Reason
#Religion
#Spirit
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
- Montesquieu
#Birth
#Death
#His
#Man
#Should
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
- Montesquieu
#Body
#Democracy
#People
#Politics
#Power
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
- Montesquieu
#Always
#Fool
#Succeed
#Wise
#World
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
- Montesquieu
#Also
#Moderation
#Should
#Spirit
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
- Montesquieu
#Law
#Liberty
#Permits
#Right
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
- Montesquieu
#Done
#Much
#Too Much
#Weak
#Wrong
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
- Montesquieu
#Laws
#Necessary
#Useless
#Weaken
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.
- Montesquieu
#Equality
#Man
#Society
#War
#Weakness
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
- Montesquieu
#God
#Made
#Sides
#Three
#Would
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
- Montesquieu
#Authority
#Experience
#Man
#Power
#Will
The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
- Montesquieu
#Always
#Decay
#Government
#Principles
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
- Montesquieu
#Dangerous
#Democracy
#Tyranny
#Welfare
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
- Montesquieu
#Blood
#Christ
#Kingdom
#More
#Than
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
- Montesquieu
#Be Happy
#Difficult
#Easy
#Happy
#People
If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
- Montesquieu
#Give
#God
#Had
#Sides
#Three
#Would
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
- Montesquieu
#Justice
#Law
#Name
#Shield
#Tyranny
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
- Montesquieu
#Body
#Laws
#Legislative
#Liberty
#Person
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
- Montesquieu
#Justice
#Law
#Name
#Shield
#Tyranny
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
- Montesquieu
#Men
#Society
#Themselves
#Union
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
- Montesquieu
#Check
#Ought
#Power
#Serve
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
- Montesquieu
#Birth
#Death
#Men
#Should
#Weep
The less men think, the more they talk.
- Montesquieu
#Less
#Men
#More
#Talk
#Think
We 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.
- Montesquieu
#Difference
#Doing
#Independence
#Liberty
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
- Montesquieu
#Above
#Become
#Great
#People
#Stand
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
- Montesquieu
#Distress
#Fear
#Hour
#Never
#Reading
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