Charles de Montesquieu

quotes: bleak/off beat (102 person items)

""if the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides." "useless laws weaken the necessary laws." "an empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war." "an author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations." "i have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve." "the less men think, the more they talk." "men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death." "we should weep for men at their birth"