193 Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.