Charles de Secondat Quotes

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Secondat

Justice, Law, Name

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Charles de Secondat

Religion, Human, Reason

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Charles de Secondat

Insult, Loved, Longer

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
Charles de Secondat

Power, Experience, Far

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Charles de Secondat

Political, Human, Law

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
Charles de Secondat

Men, Power, Gratitude

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
Charles de Secondat

Person, Read, Stop

You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Charles de Secondat

Great, Study, Deal

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
Charles de Secondat

Talk, Blind, Pretend

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Charles de Secondat

Life, Power, Him

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
Charles de Secondat

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Charles de Secondat

War, Equality, Society

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Charles de Secondat

Religion, God, Reveal

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Charles de Secondat

Strength, War, Society

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
Charles de Secondat

Happy, Whose, Tiresome

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Charles de Secondat

Wise, Fool, Succeed

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Charles de Secondat

Liberty, Whatever, Laws

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
Charles de Secondat

Life, May, Longer

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Charles de Secondat

Physical, Laws, Governed

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
Charles de Secondat

Men, Honorable, Mass

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.
Charles de Secondat

Religion, Time, Same

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Charles de Secondat

Power, Serve, Check

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Charles de Secondat

Nature, Favor, Speaking

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
Charles de Secondat

End, Through, Poverty

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
Charles de Secondat

Society, Men, Themselves

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 18, 1689

Died: February 10, 1755

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