Quotes By Charles De Montesquieu

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

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

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

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

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.