Quotes by Charles De Montesquieu

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

#Charles De Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

#Charles De Montesquieu

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

#Charles De Montesquieu

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

#Charles De Montesquieu

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions...

#Charles De Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

#Charles De Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

#Charles De Montesquieu

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

#Books, #Reading

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

#Brotherhood, #Greatness, #Humility

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

#Generations, #Writers, #Writing

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits

#Liberty

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts

#Justice, #Punishment