Home

Montesquieu QUOTES

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

  • The less men think, the more they talk.

  • Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

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



  • 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.

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

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

  • In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  • Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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

  • Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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

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

  • No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

  • The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

  • Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.


  • More Quotes