Quote

Luxury ruins republics poverty, monarchies.

Baron de Montesquieu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baron de Montesquieu
Luxury
Poverty
Monarchies
Republics
Monarchy
Tyrants
Republic
Ruins

More quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

Image
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
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.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
Baron de Montesquieu