Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorNo man is so good that, when exposed to the actions of the law, he would not be condemned to the gallows at least ten times.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorWho knows oneself, also knows others, because every man carries the entire form of the human condition.
Montesquieu
View AuthorA thing is not fair just because it is the law. It must be the law because it is fair.
Montesquieu
View AuthorDemocracy must guard against two excesses: the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotism.
Montesquieu
View AuthorAn injustice done to the individual is a threat to the entire society.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe law should be like death, which exempts no one.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe useless laws weaken the necessary ones.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThere is no worse tyranny than that which is exercised in the shadow of the laws and under the heat of justice.
Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen societies are born, the leaders of a State are the ones who give it its special character. Later, this special character is what shapes the heads of state.
Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen one seeks so much the way to become feared, one always finds first the way to become hated.
Montesquieu
View AuthorMore states have perished due to the depravity of customs than from the violation of laws.
Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen a government lasts a long time, it decomposes slowly and imperceptibly.