Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived...

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived...

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

Useless laws weaken necessary laws

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool,...

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool,...

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him,...

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him,...

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists...

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists...

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner...

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner...

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of...

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of...

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from...

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from...

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.