Montesquieu Quotes

“Virtue has need of limits.”

“Virtue has need of limits.”

“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.”

“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”

“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”

“Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.”

“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.”

“I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.”

“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.”

“What the orators want in depth they give you in length.”

“The less men think the more they talk.”