If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
MontesquieuTag: happiness discontentment
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
MontesquieuI have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve
MontesquieuI've never known any trouble that an hour's worth of reading didn't assauge
MontesquieuSolemnity is the shield of idiots
MontesquieuThey who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.
MontesquieuThere is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University Press (September 29, 1989)
MontesquieuTag: injustice criminal-justice criminal-justice-system
Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them... They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.
MontesquieuThe history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
MontesquieuI have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
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