Quotes
Quotes - Montesquieu
If triangles had a God, he would have 3 sides.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
