Quotes by
Montesquieu |
1689-1755 , French thinker
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Quotations
| • | I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. 10 |
| • | The Tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. 6 |
| • | Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. 3 |
| • | We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. 3 |
| • | Liberty is the right to do what the laws permit. 3 |
| • | In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing. 3 |
| • | I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. 2 |
| • | If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides. 2 |
| • | If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are. 2 |
| • | The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. 2 |
| • | Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. 2 |
| • | I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. 2 |
| • | The sick body of the Ottoman empire was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it. 2 |
| • | There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. 2 |
