Quotes By Charles De Montesquieu

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.