Charles Montesquieu Quotes & Sayings

You okay, Mum?" said Rob.
"I'm fine," said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm. — Liane Moriarty

The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected. — Luciano Pavarotti

Happy the people whose annals are boring to read. — Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De La Brede Et De Montesquieu

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. — Charles De Montesquieu

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. — Charles De Montesquieu

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. — Charles De Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk. — Charles De Montesquieu

Peace is a natural effect of trade. — Charles De Montesquieu

The answer, The answer, my friend, is not yours to invent or create. It will be decided for you. It is outside you. It is real and objective and firm. One day you will hear it. You don't create it. You don't define it. It comes to you, and sooner or later you conform to it - or bow to it. — John Piper

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. — Charles De Montesquieu

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

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. — Charles De Montesquieu

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. — Charles De Montesquieu

I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked. — Jemima Kirke

Our best friend and our worst enemy reside within us. Unfortunately, most of us access the latter far more often than the former. — Maddy Malhotra

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. — Charles De Montesquieu

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. — Charles De Montesquieu

Muslims are not your enemy. — Bernie Sanders

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. — Charles De Montesquieu

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. — Charles De Montesquieu

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. — 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

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. — Charles De Montesquieu

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. — George Santayana

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. — Charles De Montesquieu

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. — Charles De Montesquieu

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions. — Hans Kung

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. — Charles De Montesquieu

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. — Charles De Montesquieu

It's disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with myself. — Austin Carlile

Somewhere? Even now, perhaps, it was not too late — Arthur Hailey

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. — Charles De Montesquieu

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. — Charles De Montesquieu

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. — Charles De Montesquieu

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. — Charles De Montesquieu

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. — Charles De Montesquieu

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. — Charles De Montesquieu

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. — Charles De Montesquieu

It is important to note that the acquisition of wealth, as the accepted standard of succes, does not refer to increasing material goods for sustenance purposes, or even for the purpose of increasing enjoyment. It refers rather to wealth as a sign of individual power, a proof of achievement and self-worth.
Modern economic individualism, though based on belief in the free individual, has resulted in the phenomenon that increasingly large numbers of people have to work on the property (capital) of a few powerful owners. It is not surprising that such a situation should lead to widespread insecurity, for not only is the individual faced with a criterion of succes over which he has only partial control but also his opportunities for a job are in considerable measure out of his control. — Rollo May