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Montesquieu

1689-1755 ,  French thinker
Montesquieu

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

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.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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.

Liberty is the right to do what the laws permit.

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.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

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.

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.


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