Montesquieu
View AuthorUsually, those who possess great talent are naive.
Montesquieu
View AuthorSports appeal because they flatter greed, that is, the hope of possessing more.
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 AuthorThe study has been for me the main remedy against the worries of life; not having had a trouble that has not passed after an hour of reading.
Montesquieu
View AuthorTalent is a gift that God gives us in secret, and that we reveal without knowing it.
Montesquieu
View AuthorFreedom is the right to do what the laws allow. If a citizen had the right to do what they prohibit, it would no longer be freedom, as anyone else would have the same right.
Montesquieu
View AuthorThe breakdown of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
Montesquieu
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Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen one seeks so much the way to become feared, one always finds first the way to become hated.
Montesquieu
View AuthorPeople who have little to do are usually very talkative: the more one thinks and acts, the less one speaks.
Montesquieu
View AuthorIn public law, the most severe act of justice is war, because it can result in the destruction of society.