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Montesquieu Quotes

French - Philosopher | January 18, 1689 - February 10, 1755

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Power Experience Man Go Authority

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Age People Corruption Young Mature

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

Government Principles Always Begins

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Law Liberty Right Permits

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

Fool Wise Succeed World Always Seem

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

Loved Insult Misfortune Longer

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.

Law Political Earth Human Reason

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

Men Death Birth Should Weep

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Future Fool Boring Future Generations

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Power Knowing Degree Different

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Free Well Fertile Countries

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

Great Great Things Always Empires

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