Quotes by Charles De Montesquieu

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a...

#Liberty, #Nations

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would...

#Citizenship, #Mankind

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

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

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

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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

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

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life;...

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

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