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| Montesquieu Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | There has never been a kingdom inclined to so many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ. | Christianity |
| 2 | Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. | Country |
| 3 | We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. | Death |
| 4 | I have always observed that to succeed in the world, one should seem a fool but be wise. | Humility |
| 5 | There is no cruder tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. | Justice |
| 6 | Society is the union of men but not men themselves; the citizen may perish, but man remains. | Marriage |
| 7 | Law should be like death, which spares no one. | Order |
| 8 | If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life. | Pain |
| 9 | It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. | Power |
| 10 | What the orators lack in depth, they give you in length. | Speech |
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