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Charles Louis Montesquieu. The most famous aphorisms

The author is a fool who, not satisfied with the fact that he has bothered his acquaintances, tries to bother future generations.
Useless laws invalidate necessary laws.
Useless laws weaken the power of useful ones.
Most of what makes us happy is unreasonable.
In the matter of taxes, one should take into account not what the people can give, but what they can always give.
Importance is the shield of fools.
All people are animals, and sovereigns are animals that are not kept on a leash.
Everyone in the world loves the game, and the most prudent people willingly give themselves up to it until they see all the violence, tricks, delusions, loss of money and time associated with it, until they realize that it can be spent on it all their lives.
Anyone with power tends to abuse it.
In order to be successful in the world, one must be able to seem insane, but at the same time remain prudent.
If there is no respect for the elders, then there will be no respect for the fathers either.
There are vices that come from a lack of self-respect. There are also those that come from an excess of it.
There are means to prevent crimes - these are punishments, there are means to change mores - these are good examples.
The cruelty of laws hinders their observance.
The envious person is his own enemy, because he suffers from evil created by himself.
The law should be like death, which spares no one.
Laws should have the same meaning for everyone.
History is a series of fictitious events that actually happened.
Every citizen is obliged to die for the fatherland, but no one is obliged to lie for his sake.
How small is the gap between the time when a person is still too young and when he is already too old.
The books of the ancients are written for the authors; the books of the new are for the readers of the public.
When virtue disappears, ambition captures all capable of it, and greed - all without exception ...
Whoever pursues witticisms, for the most part, is able to catch only stupidity.
The best way to instill in children a love of homeland is to have this love with their fathers.
The best argument for the fickleness of men is that the institution of marriage had to be introduced.
People are like plants that do not grow well if they are not well cared for.
You have to learn a lot to know even a little.
It seems to me that the most perfect is that which allows you to achieve the goal at the lowest cost.
A mockery is a speech in favor of one's mind and against one's heart.
One should not achieve by laws what can be achieved by improving morals.
An injustice committed against one person is a threat to all.
Unfortunate fate of people! No sooner has the mind reached its maturity than the body begins to weaken.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which lives under the shadow of laws and under the auspices of justice, when the unfortunate, so to speak, are drowned on the very plank on which they escaped.
There is nothing more annoying than to see how a well-spoken word dies in the ear of the fool to whom you said it.
One should never exhaust the subject to the point where there is nothing left for the reader, the point is not to make him read, but to make him think.
One must first be a bad citizen in order to become a good slave.
The appearance of a new sect in the state is the surest means of correcting the errors of the old one.
The government should be such that people can not be afraid of each other.
Idleness weakens courage more than all vices.
Idle people are always big talkers. The less you think, the more you talk.
Contempt in most cases deserves only contempt.
In conquests, it is not enough to leave to the conquered population its laws, it is also necessary to leave its customs to it: the people always defend their morals more than their laws.
The principle of democracy disintegrates not only when the spirit of equality is lost, but also when the spirit of equality is carried to the extreme and everyone wants to be equal to those whom he has chosen to rule him.
Nature always acts slowly and economically in its own way.
Nature has wisely taken care that human follies are transient, while books perpetuate them. A fool should be content with the fact that he has bothered all his contemporaries, but he also wants to annoy future generations, he wants posterity to be aware that he lived in the world, and so that they never forget that he was a fool.
Previously, the property of private individuals was public property, and now the public treasury is becoming the property of private individuals.
The cruelest tyranny is that which acts under the shadow of law and under the flag of justice.
Freedom is the right to do whatever is not prohibited by law.
Continuous idleness should have been placed among the torments of hell, but it was placed among the blessings of paradise.
We should mourn people when they are born, not when they die.
It is more difficult to keep a victory than to win it, because victory is gained with the help of all forces, and only a part of them is usually used to maintain it.
Happy are the people whose history is boring.
A woman has only one opportunity to be beautiful, but there are a hundred thousand opportunities to be attractive.
Financiers support the state in the same way that the rope supports the hanged man.
The French almost never talk about their wives: they are afraid to speak in front of outsiders who know these wives better than the husbands themselves.
They only do well what they do when they are free.
A smart person feels what others only know.
To know people, you need to forgive them the prejudices of their time.
To do great things, you don't need to be the greatest genius, you don't need to be above people, you need to be with them.
I always noticed that to be successful in the world you have to look stupid and be smart.
I am first a man, and then a Frenchman.

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