Quotes by : Montesquieu

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.

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society....

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....

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world.....

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

A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.....

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