Quote

Study has been for me the sovereign remedy against all the disappointments of life. I have never known any trouble that an hour's reading would not dissipate.

Baron de Montesquieu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Baron de Montesquieu
Hours
Dissipate
Reading
Disappointments
Known
Sovereign
Never
Remedy
Would
Disappointment
Life
Hour
Trouble
Study

More quotes by Baron de Montesquieu

Image
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
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
Image
Vanity and pride of nations vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits monarchies by poverty.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
Baron de Montesquieu
Image
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
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