193 Quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

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

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.