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When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt. (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom. (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished (Baron De Montesquieu Quotes)