Author of quotes: Charles Louis de Montesquieu

The government should be such that people can not be afraid of each other.

In order to prevent the abuse of power, it is necessary to have an order of things in which different authorities can mutually restrain each other.

Due to the nature, I - man, by accident, I'm French.

There are only two kinds of just war: when people fight to repel the attack of the enemy, or when you go to help an ally in distress.

The task of the state to force private citizens to comply with laws that serve the common good, to resolve social conflicts, wars, enmity between people.

You need to be truthful in everything, even in regard to the homeland. Every citizen is obliged to die for their country, but you can never be obliged to lie in the name of the Motherland.

Nothing promotes mutual affection, as the possibility of divorce: husband and wife can easily tolerate the hardships of family life, and frequently having all his life the opportunity, they used it only because it was free to do it.

You should never exhaust a subject that one leaves nothing for the reader; it is not to force him to read, and to make him think.

Injustice committed against one person is a threat to all.

The reading was for me the best remedy for the troubles in life; not such grief was that the hour of reading did not dissipate.

Those who love to learn, are never idle.

You should mourn people when they are born not when they die.

I had to meet people, a virtue which is so natural, that it is not even noticeable; they do their duty, without suffering any hardships, and they are attracted to it as if by instinct; they never boasted of his rare qualities and seems not even conscious of them in himself. These are the people I like, not the righteous, as if surprised his own justice and consider a good deed a miracle, a story which should be amazing.

It seems to me that hatred is full of suffering for the person who feels it.