Quotes by Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small f >>

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has >>

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satis >>

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. >>

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

Montesquieu, Charles De