Montesquieu Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Montesquieu:

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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

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

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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

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There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

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You have to study a great deal to know a little.

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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

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

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Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

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Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

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What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

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

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Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

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Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

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The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

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

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The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

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The less men think, the more they talk.

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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

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Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

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No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

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