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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
— 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
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
— Charles De Montesquieu
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
— Charles De Montesquieu
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
— Charles De Montesquieu
For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
— Bartholomew Roberts
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
— Charles De Montesquieu
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
— Joseph Fiennes
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
— Charles De Montesquieu
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
— 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
Life is beautiful, enjoy every moment of it.
— Patti Hansen
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 reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
— Charles De Montesquieu
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
— Charles De Montesquieu
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
— 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
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
— Charles De Montesquieu
The less men think, the more they talk.
— Charles De Montesquieu
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
— Charles De Montesquieu
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
— Charles De Montesquieu
I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
— Mahesh Bhupathi
Man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.
— Jeannie Gunn
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Happy the people whose annals are boring to read.
— Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De La Brede Et De Montesquieu
No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.
— Auliq Ice
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
— Charles De Montesquieu
Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
— Neil Gaiman