Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
Baron de Montesquieu
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Baron de Montesquieu
Treatment
Supported
Sick
Empire
Whose
Continually
Powerful
Exhausted
Body
Diet
Empires
Ottoman
Regular
Ottomans
Diets
Mild
More quotes by Baron de Montesquieu
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Baron de Montesquieu
The state is the association of men, and not men themselves the citizen may perish, and the man remain.
Baron de Montesquieu
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
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines they feel.
Baron de Montesquieu
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
Baron de Montesquieu
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
Baron de Montesquieu
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
Baron de Montesquieu
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Baron de Montesquieu
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Baron de Montesquieu
The less men think, the more they talk.
Baron de Montesquieu
Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
Baron de Montesquieu
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu
The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.
Baron de Montesquieu
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself
Baron de Montesquieu
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
Baron de Montesquieu
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.
Baron de Montesquieu
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
Baron de Montesquieu
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
Baron de Montesquieu
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
Baron de Montesquieu
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Baron de Montesquieu
