37 Quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

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

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.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.