Quote

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Baron de Montesquieu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baron de Montesquieu
Supper
Kills
Lunch
Paris
Philosophical
Half

More quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

Image
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things of the same kind.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Solemnity is the shield of idiots
Baron de Montesquieu