An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Charles de Montesquieu
The love of democracy is that of equality. - Charles de Montesquieu
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. - Charles de Montesquieu
In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws. - Charles de Montesquieu
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. - Charles de Montesquieu