Quote

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Baron de Montesquieu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baron de Montesquieu
Invented
Mathematics
Saying
Three
Make
Good
Would
Triangles
Sided

More quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

Image
Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.
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
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Baron de Montesquieu