Montesquieu's famous sayings, Montesquieu classic quotations

1. People cannot live like beasts, and should pursue knowledge and virtue.

2, love reading, it is equivalent to the lonely and boring time in life into a moment of great enjoyment.

3. Reading is the best way for me to dispel the unhappiness in life. No distress is that books cannot be dispelled.

4, ah! If you praise, if you are out of your mouth, how boring it is!

5. Modesty is an indispensable character.

6, luxury always follows the fornication, fornication always follows the luxury.

7. Let us take the reputation as the heaviest part of the penalty!

8. Things that are good for the body and harmful to the family, I don't do it; things that are good for the family and harmful to the country, I don't do it.

9. What people are sad about is not the death of human beings but their birth.

10. A person who truly loves the motherland is a real person in every aspect.

11. Society is a collection of people, not their own.

12. There must be a driving hub in a people's country. This is virtue.

13, ah! If you praise, if you are out of your mouth, how boring it is!

14. Freedom is not freedom without restriction. Freedom is the power to do anything that is permitted by law.

15, morality should be noble; life, should be frank, behave, should be polite.

16. Measuring a person's true character is to see what he does when he knows that no one will find out.

17. Love to read is to change the lonely and boring time in life into a moment of great enjoyment.

18. How many virtues and shortcomings are trivial.

19. Courtesy delights polite people and delights those who are treated with courtesy.

20. Politics is a blunt knife. He frustrated and slowly reached its goal.

21. The so-called virtue in the Republic refers to the love of the motherland, that is, the equality of love. This is not a moral virtue, nor a Christian virtue, but a political virtue.

22. Dominating and ruling everything is the power of law in the monarchy. In the autocratic government, the iron fist of the monarch is always held high, but there is still a kind of impetus in the people's country. This is virtue.

23, bad is not a new generation, only after the elderly have been corrupted, they will be corrupted.

24. The misfortune of a republic is that it no longer has a conspiracy secret. This happens when people corrupt the people with money. At this time, the people became calm, keen on money, and no longer keen on state affairs.

25, can pin their lives in the memory of others, life seems to be lengthened; glory is the new life we ​​have, it can be precious, it is no less than the life of talent. - Montesquieu freedom is the right to do everything the law permits.

26, the average person is often praised by mediocrity. For mediocrity people, people are very happy to help; for those who are talented, people are deprived of their own. The latter became the object of jealousy, and people did not forgive him; but for the benefit of the former, people did not hesitate to give support, he was supported by people's vanity. - Montesquieu