Zitate von Baron Charles-Louis de Montesquieu
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Die Leute, welche man die gute Gesellschaft nennt, sind oft bloß jene, deren Laster raffinierter sind.
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Freiheitskämpfer, Schriftsteller, Philosoph, Staatstheoretiker, gilt als Vorläufer der Soziologie, Mitbegründer der modernen Geschichtswissenschaft (Frankreich, 1689 - 1755).
Baron Charles-Louis de Montesquieu · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Baron Charles-Louis de Montesquieu wäre heute 335 Jahre, 3 Monate, 2 Tage oder 122.448 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.01.1689 in Schloß La Brède/Bordeaux
Gestorben am 10.02.1755 in Paris
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If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Lack of respect for women is always the surest sign of moral decadence.
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Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Liberty is the right to do everything which the laws allow.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
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Modesty becomes everyone; but one must learn to overcome it without losing it.
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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
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The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
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The life of states is like that of men. The latter have the right of killing in self-defense; the former to make wars for their own preservation.
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The spirit of politeness, is a desire to bring about by our words and manners, that others may be pleased with us and with themselves.
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There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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There is no cruder tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Those who have few affairs to attend to are great talkers. The less men think, the more they talk.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Virtue has need of limits.