Quotes by : Montesquieu

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented....

What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of....

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

Virtue has need of limits.

History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of....

Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found....

The desire for glory is no different from that instinct for preservation that is common to all creatures.....

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former,....

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