Quote

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Baron de Montesquieu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baron de Montesquieu
Severity
Prevents
Execution
Lawyer
Philosophical
Laws
Law

More quotes by 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
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Luxury ruins republics poverty, monarchies.
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
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.
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
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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 life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
An injustice to one is a threat made to all
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
Baron de Montesquieu