Charles Louis De Secondat Quotes

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Useless laws weaken the necessary ones.

Divorce generally has a great political use; as for its civil use, it is established for the husband and wife and is not always favourable to the children.

The same rule applies for lust, as for avarice: it increases its thirst by the acquisition of wealth.

Freedom is the right to do anything the laws permit.

Republics end by wealth; monarchies end by poverty.

Love of democracy is love of equality.

Government is like everything else in the world; to conserve it, we must love it.

Law is naturally founded on this principle: that different nations should do, in peace and as far as best as they can in war, the least harm as possible, without harming their true interests.

If triangles had made a god, it would have three sides.

A person should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

No kingdom has ever been so divided by civil wars as that of Christ.

Once someone wants to know my name, I become quiet. I know a woman who walks rather well, but who limps once she sees someone watching her.