37 Quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

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

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

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

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

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

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

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