54 Quotes About French-philosopher

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

God is related to the universe, as Creator and Preserver; the laws by which He created all things are those by which He preserves them.