Montesquieu
View AuthorThe useless laws weaken the necessary ones.
Montesquieu
View AuthorWhen death has equalized fortunes, funerals should not differentiate them.
Montesquieu
View AuthorA man is not unhappy because of ambition, but because it devours him.
Montesquieu
View AuthorFreedom consists of being able to do what one ought to do.
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
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.