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Quotations of selected author

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

1689 - 1755. French political thinker.

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

categories: Education

2. "Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

categories: Law and Crime

3. "There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Law and Crime

4. "There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."

categories: Peace and War

5. "Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Various

6. "Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."

categories: Love

7. "Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit."

categories: Freedom and Servitude

8. "Happy the people whose annals are tiresome."

categories: History and Nations

9. "Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"

categories: God and Religion

10. "A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

categories: Life and Death


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