Charles de Secondat Quotes

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

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.
Charles de Secondat

Government, Almost, Principles

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Charles de Secondat

Peace, Time, Good

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles de Secondat

War, Victory, Object

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.
Charles de Secondat

Nature, Bad, State

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Charles de Secondat

Success, Long, Succeed

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Charles de Secondat

War, Enemy, Help

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
Charles de Secondat

Government, Three, Republican

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Charles de Secondat

Since, Act, Might

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
Charles de Secondat

Done, Wrong, Minds

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
Charles de Secondat

Politics, Power, Democracy

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Charles de Secondat

Person, May, Liberty

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 18, 1689

Died: February 10, 1755

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