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Famous Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
“Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.”
“The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.”
“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”
“Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.”
“A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.”
“Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.”
“There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.”
“When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.”
“There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.”
“The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.”
“Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.”
“The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.”
“There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.”
“There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.”