Montesquieu Quotes

    Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
    Montesquieu
    Friendship
    If one only wished to be happy, this could be horrible for the rest of civilisation; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
    Montesquieu
    Happiness
    In a free nation, it matters not whether individuals reason well or ill; it is sufficient that they do reason. Truth arises from the collision and from hence springs liberty, which is a security from the effects of reasoning.
    Montesquieu
    Freedom
    Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
    Montesquieu
    Love
    [The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
    Montesquieu
    History
    [The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread...and a thousand other things of the same kind.
    Montesquieu
    Religion
    I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
    Montesquieu
    Religion
    Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
    Montesquieu
    Religion
    A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
    Montesquieu
    Philosophy

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