Montesquieu's famous sayings
1. In a people's country, there must be a driving force, which is virtue.
2. It is never the new generation that becomes bad. It is only after the older people have become corrupt that they will continue to be corrupt.
3. Politeness makes polite people happy, and also makes people who are treated politely happy.
4. The most enjoyable thing is reading, but the most important thing is teaching your children.
5. If I read as much as others, I know as little as others.
6. A person who truly loves the motherland is a real person in all aspects.
7. People cannot live like animals and should pursue knowledge and virtue.
8. Let us make dishonor the most severe part of the punishment!
9. The true measure of a person’s character is what he does when he knows no one will notice.
10. If you pursue wit, you will catch folly.
11. Freedom is not unlimited freedom. Freedom is the power to do anything permitted by law.
12. We live only to discover beauty. Everything else is forms of waiting.
13. What I call the virtues of the motherland and the country refers to love of the motherland, that is, love of equality. This is not a moral virtue, nor a Christian virtue, but a political virtue.
14. Reading is the best way for me to get rid of the unpleasantness in life. There is no kind of distress that reading cannot dispel.
15. Politics is a blunted knife. It frustrates and slowly achieves its goal.
16. The misfortune of a peaceful country is when it no longer has a conspiracy. This happens when people corrupt people with money. At this time, the people became calm and were interested in money instead of state affairs.
17. Although I have some advantages, the advantage I value most is my humility.
18. Freedom is the right to do everything permitted by the law.
19. Loving reading is equivalent to changing the lonely and boring time in life into moments of great enjoyment.
20. What people grieve is not the death of human beings but their birth.
21. Like reading is equivalent to changing the lonely hours in life into moments of great enjoyment.
22. Humility is an indispensable virtue.
23. What dominates and governs everything is the power of law in a monarchy. In an autocratic government, it is the iron fist of the monarch that is always held high. But in a country of the people, there is also a kind of promotion. The pivot, this is virtue.
24. Luxury is always followed by promiscuity, and promiscuity is always followed by luxury.
25. How many virtues and shortcomings are insignificant.
26. Ah! How boring is it when words of praise come from your own mouth!
27. Being able to entrust one's life in the memory of others, life seems to be lengthened; glory is the new life we ??gain, which is precious and is no less than the life given by nature.
28. Since nature creates different degrees of strength and weakness in the human world, it also often uses desperate struggles to make the weak no less powerful than the strong.
29. The true measure of a person’s character is what he does when he knows no one will notice.
30. Society is a collection of people, not each of them.
31. Ah! How boring is it when words of praise come from your own mouth!
32. I will not do things that are beneficial to me but harmful to my family; I will not do things that are beneficial to my family but harmful to my country.
33. Morality should be noble; conduct should be frank, and behavior should be polite.
34. Politeness makes polite people happy, and also makes people who are treated politely happy.
35. Like reading is equivalent to changing the lonely hours in life into moments of great enjoyment.
A collection of Montesquieu's famous sayings
1. In a people's country, there must be a driving force, and this is virtue.
2. It is never the new generation that becomes bad. It is only after the older people have become corrupt that they will continue to be corrupted.
3. Politeness makes polite people happy, and also makes people who are treated politely happy.
4. The most enjoyable thing is reading, but the most important thing is teaching your children.
5. If I read as much as others, I know as little as others.
6. A person who truly loves the motherland is a real person in all aspects.
7. People cannot live like animals and should pursue knowledge and virtue.
8. Let us make dishonor the most severe part of the punishment!
9. The true measure of a person’s character is what he does when he knows no one will notice.
10. If you pursue wit, you will catch folly.
11. Freedom is not unlimited freedom. Freedom is the power to do anything permitted by law.
12. We live only to discover beauty. Everything else is forms of waiting.
13. What I call the virtues of the motherland and the country refers to love of the motherland, that is, love of equality. This is not a moral virtue, nor a Christian virtue, but a political virtue.
14. Reading is the best way for me to get rid of the unpleasantness in life. There is no kind of distress that reading cannot dispel.
15. Politics is a blunted knife. It frustrates and slowly achieves its goal.
16. The misfortune of a peaceful country is when it no longer has plots and secret plans. This happens when people corrupt people with money. At this time, the people became calm and were interested in money instead of state affairs.
17. Although I have some advantages, the advantage I value most is my humility.
18. Freedom is the right to do everything permitted by law.
19. Loving reading is equivalent to changing the lonely and boring time in life into moments of great enjoyment.
20. What people grieve is not the death of human beings but their birth.
21. Like reading is equivalent to changing the lonely hours in life into moments of great enjoyment.
22. Humility is an indispensable virtue.
23. What dominates and governs everything is the power of law in a monarchy government, and in an autocratic government it is the iron fist of the monarch that is always held high, but in a people's country there is also a driving force. , this is virtue.
24. Luxury always follows fornication, and fornication always follows luxury.
25. How many virtues and shortcomings are insignificant.
26. Ah! How boring is it when words of praise come from your own mouth!
27. Being able to entrust one's life in the memory of others, life seems to be lengthened; glory is the new life we ??gain, which is precious and is no less than the life given by nature.
28. Since nature creates different degrees of strength and weakness in the world, it also often uses desperate struggles to make the weak no less powerful than the strong.
29. The true measure of a person’s character is what he does when he knows no one will notice.
30. Society is a collection of people, not each of them themselves.
31. Ah! How boring is it when words of praise come from your own mouth!
32. I will not do things that are beneficial to me but harmful to my family; I will not do things that are beneficial to my family but harmful to my country.
33. Morality should be noble; conduct should be frank, and behavior should be polite.
34. Politeness makes polite people happy, and also makes people who are treated politely happy.
35. Like reading is equivalent to changing the lonely hours in life into moments of great enjoyment.
Montesquieu's famous quotes
1. At the beginning, Rome had no garrison. They placed all their trust in their troops stationed along the river; there towers were built at regular intervals to house the soldiers. But when one has only bad armies (often there is not even any army left), the border can no longer defend the interior, and it needs to be fortified. Therefore, there are more places to fortify, but the number of troops is relatively small; there are more places to escape, but there is less security. ----"Theory of the Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome"
2. All people with power will abuse their power. This is an eternal experience.
Judging from the nature of things, the only way to prevent the abuse of power is to use power to restrict power. ----"The Spirit of the Law"
3. Really smart people can feel things that others only know
4. In the era of ignorance, people committed heinous crimes In the Age of Enlightenment, people were still frightened even if they did their best. We felt the shortcomings of the old era, but also felt the methods to correct these shortcomings, and even saw the shortcomings of correcting these shortcomings themselves. For evil, we will not touch it. If we are afraid that reform will make the disadvantages worse, we might as well touch good things. If we are skeptical about further reforms, our local research is for To judge the whole, to study all the causes, is to look at all the effects. ----"The Spirit of Discourse"
5. Human beings are extremely hopeful and fearful. Religion without earth and heaven will not please mankind. ---- "The Spirit of Discourse"
6. If you love reading, you can turn boring moments into moments of joy.
7. There was a law of dignity (1oi de majesté) in Rome, which was directed at people who wanted to harm the Roman people.
Tiberius took advantage of this law, but he did not use it to deal with the original object, but to deal with all the people he hated or distrusted. Not only actions are governed by this law, but also words, expressions, and even thoughts, for a heartfelt expression between two friends can only be regarded as a thought. There was no freedom at banquets, no trust between relatives, no loyalty among slaves. The monarch's hypocrisy and gloom infected everyone. Friendship was regarded as a dangerous reef; telling the truth was regarded as imprudent, and virtue was nothing but an affectation that evoked memories of past happiness in the mind. ----"Theory of the Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome"
8. Charm is by no means something acquired. To gain charisma, you must first be naive. But how can people be naive? ----"On Fun"
9. Reading is the best way for me to get rid of the unpleasantness in life. There is no kind of distress that reading cannot dispel.
10. In order to preserve ethics, it destroys human nature. It should be noted that human nature is the source of ethics.
11. In the mother-like eyes of civil law, everyone is the entire country ---- "The Spirit of Law"
12. The principle of authoritarian politics is terror.
13. The disputes that are always needed to maintain the rule of Japan and the country will only be very harmful to the rule of the emperor, because such disputes will only make it easy for the ruler to rule. People, however, cannot establish the law and cannot stop the abuse of power. ----"A Theory of the Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome"
14. The evaluation of him by future generations, like all other things, will be at the arbitrary mercy of fate, good or bad. The reputation of any king who is defeated by a party that later becomes dominant, or who tries to eliminate the prejudices that have remained in him, will always suffer damage! ----"The Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome"
15. I hate every word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to speak.
16. All people with power are prone to abuse their power. This is an eternal experience. The way to prevent the abuse of power is to use power to restrain power - "The Spirit of the Law"
17. The people of Constantinople are always divided into two factions: the "blue faction" and the "blue faction" Green Party". These two factions arose from the audience's varying degrees of support for certain actors in the theater. At the racecourse, drivers in green and drivers in blue compete for gold. Everyone in the audience enthusiastically joined the group. There are these two factions in every city of the empire, and they fight against each other with varying degrees of intensity according to the size of the city, that is to say, according to the degree of idleness of a large part of the people. ----"Theory of the Causes of the Rise and Fall of Rome"
18. Well-intentioned ridicule is a way of speaking that is harmful to people's goodness and beneficial to their intelligence.
19. All people with power are prone to abuse their power. This is an eternal experience. People with power tend to use their power until they reach a limit." Power is naturally expansive and malignant. As long as there is insufficient restraint and supervision, any power will lead to corruption. To prevent the abuse of power, we must use Power restrains power.
20. People become more human in suffering.
21. The misfortune of a peaceful country is when it no longer has any conspiracy. . This happens when people corrupt the people with money. At this time, the people become calm and are no longer interested in money.
22. Measure a person's true character. , it depends on what he does when he knows that no one is aware.
23. Generally speaking, a talented person has difficulty getting along with others, and the people he chooses are very few.< /p>
24. Law, when it governs all people on the earth, is human reason.
25. The income of a country is part of the own property paid by each citizen. To ensure the safety of his remaining property or to enjoy it happily
26. It is never the new generation that becomes bad. They will only become corrupt after the older people have become corrupt.
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27. Mediocrity is the safest
28. Humble people, come and let me embrace you! You make life gentle and moving... You don’t want to make anyone feel ashamed. < /p>
29. If you can place your life in the memory of others, your life seems to be longer.
30. Politics is a blunt knife, he frustrates it. Slowly achieve its goal
Montesquieu's famous aphorisms
1. How boring are words of praise when they come from your own mouth!
p>2. Those who are more powerful are the first to disobey natural law, because they don’t have to worry about others’ punishment.
3. I have seen some. People have beautiful virtues and natural attitudes, which makes people feel that they are virtuous because they fulfill their vocation without any force and all their performances are as instinctive.
They will never go into long speeches pointing out their rare advantages, because they seem to have no idea of ??such a thing.
4. As animals with desires, humans are dominated by a variety of desires. Desires can easily escape the constraints of reason and conscience and expand infinitely.
5. The relationship between law and all existing things. In the most general sense, law is an inevitable relationship arising from the nature of things, that is, the inherent laws between things. In this sense, law in a broad sense refers to rules. All beings have their own laws. God has his laws, gods have their laws, animals have their laws, and humans have their own laws.
6. Generally speaking, a talented person has difficulty getting along with others, and the people he chooses are very few.
7. Reading is the best way for me to get rid of the unpleasantness in life. There is no kind of distress that reading cannot dispel.
8. The safety of the people is the highest law.
9. Some nations are very perverted. If they are kind and tolerant to them, they will feel that they are justified. They feel that countries that are tolerant to them are easy to bully; if they retaliate against them and make them suffer huge disasters, they will On the contrary, it will be friendly to that country. There is no other better way to deal with such a perverted country that has no sense of shame and is ungrateful except revenge.
10. Human beings have a great sense of hope and fear. Religion without earth and heaven will not please mankind.
11. If a person wants to succeed in this world, he must behave like a fool but be very smart.
12. For the wealthy, anything that does not bring them power and honor is considered an insult.
13. The disputes that are always needed to maintain the rule of Japan and the country will only be very harmful to the rule of the emperor, because such disputes will only make it easy for the ruler to rule. People, however, cannot establish the law and cannot stop the abuse of power.
14. Law, when it governs all people on earth, is human reason.
15. In a monarchy, there is only civil war but no revolution. But in autocracy, there is only revolution but no civil war.
16. Beauty must be clean and innocent, both in image and in heart.
17. Humility is an indispensable virtue.
18. The democratic system tramples on all these ideals with a frivolous and impetuous attitude. It does not ask what a person's original job is or what his character is. As long as he turns to politics and claims that he has good intentions for the people, it will be enough. Be respected and honored.
19. The true spirit of equality does not mean that everyone should be commanded or not be commanded, but that we obey or command people who are equal to us.
20. The revenue of the state is the part of his own property that each citizen pays to ensure the safety or happy enjoyment of his remaining property.
21. The relationship between law and all existing things. In the most general sense, law is an inevitable relationship arising from the nature of things, that is, the inherent laws between things. In this sense, law in a broad sense refers to rules.
22. In order to preserve ethics, it destroys human nature. It should be noted that human nature is the source of ethics.
23. Freedom does not mean that people can do whatever they want. Freedom only means the right to do everything within the scope of the law.
24. Politics is a blunted knife. It frustrates and slowly achieves its goal.
25. Refining legal provisions is one way to reduce judges’ autonomy; increasing judicial procedures is another way to limit judges’ autonomy. The existence of judicial procedures greatly reduces the chance that a judge will arbitrarily convict an innocent person as guilty and a guilty person as innocent.
26. It is never the new generation that becomes bad. It is only after the older people have become corrupt that they will continue to be corrupted.
27. If judicial power becomes one with political power, judges will have the power of the oppressor.
28. People obey officials only because they are frightened by the power of the law. If there is no law, people will become very cruel to officials and they will take revenge.
29. Powerful people tend to violate powerless people. This is a major feature of human life.
30. Noble people do not do business, and people who do business are not noble.
31. Injustice to one person is a threat to everyone.
32. The difference between a good democratic country and a bad democratic country is: the former only provides citizens with legal equality, that is, everyone is equal before the law; the latter strives to level out different levels and Different statuses enable people to achieve absolute equality.
33. If you want to make the country stable, you should make the two poles as close as possible; there should be neither wealth nor abject poverty. These two naturally inseparable orders are equally fatal to the happiness of the public; the one produces the adherents of tyranny, the other tyrants. There is always a fair and free transaction between them: one is buying freedom, the other is selling freedom.
34. Morality should be noble; conduct should be frank; behavior should be polite.
35. All people with power will abuse their power. This is an eternal experience. Judging from the nature of things, the only way to prevent the abuse of power is to use power to restrict power.
36. If the rich do not live in luxury, the poor will starve to death.
37. The true measure of a person’s character is what he does when he knows no one will notice.
38. Time gives us a new life, which is precious and valuable, no less than the life given by nature.
39. Although I have some advantages, the advantage I value most is my humility.
40. There are four good habits: punctuality, correctness, perseverance, and speed. Without the first item, time will be wasted; without the second item, there will be many mistakes; without the third item, things will never be done well; if the fourth item is missing, good opportunities will be missed.
41. The law is always just under normal circumstances, but almost always unjust when applied in practice.
42. Since nature creates different degrees of strength and weakness in the world, it often uses desperate struggles to make the weak no less powerful than the strong.
43. A citizen’s political freedom is a state of peace of mind. This peaceful state of mind arises from everyone's belief that he is safe in himself. To enjoy this freedom, a kind of government must be established. Under its rule one citizen has no fear of another.
44. What I call the virtues of the motherland and the country refers to love of the motherland, that is, love of equality. This is not a moral virtue, nor a Christian virtue, but a political virtue.
45. The tyranny of those with authoritarian political power is not as dangerous to the well-being of the people as the indifference of the people in democratic politics.
46. Morality should be noble; conduct should be frank, and behavior should be polite.
47. When we talk to others, we must pay special attention, because this is when others evaluate us.
48. In the East, people always marry many wives in order to eliminate the great power they have over us in a country with a climate like ours. But in Constantinople the one-wife law gave women great power: a situation that often made rule weak.
49. If you pursue wit, you will catch folly.
50. Above others, treat others as human beings; below others, treat yourself as human beings.
51. If a person is morally perfect, he will not have friends.
52. When we speak in front of people who are as vain as us, their vanity is tortured to the same extent as our vanity is satisfied.
53. Being able to entrust one's life in the memory of others, life seems to be lengthened; glory is the new life we ??gain, which is precious and is no less than the life of innateness.
54. People at both ends of happiness, namely those who are particularly happy and those who are particularly unhappy, tend to be cruel. People who are in the middle of happiness will have a gentle and compassionate heart.
55. If you can entrust your life in the memory of others, your life seems to be lengthened.
56. Loving reading is equivalent to changing the lonely and boring time in life into moments of great enjoyment.
57. All people are born equal, and there is no distinction between high and low. We have no right to boss others around under the guise of what we have received, and we have no reason to feel sorry for ourselves because of the fate we have received. Above others, we must regard others as human beings; below others, we must regard ourselves as human beings.
58. Love of learning is our only and eternal motivation. Nothing can stop us, except life coming to an end.
59. I have never had any sorrow that even an hour of reading could not dispel.
60. All people with power are prone to abuse their power. This is an eternal experience. The way to prevent the abuse of power is to use power to restrain power.
61. The greater the population and the denser the population ratio, the more people’s desires and the stronger their vanity. The more a society has a large population and most people do not know each other, the stronger the desire for people to be different from others and stand out. People want to prove that they are better than others in order to gain the respect of others. Respect is also a limited resource. Everyone wants to gain respect from others, but as a result, no one can get it.
62. The most powerful thing about law is when citizens obey officials.
63. Morality is closely related to freedom, but when freedom develops to the extreme, it will turn into extreme slavery.
64. Freedom is not unlimited freedom. Freedom is the power to do anything permitted by law.
65. All people with power are prone to abuse their power. This is an eternal experience. People with power tend to use their power until they reach a limit. Power is naturally expansive and malignant. As long as there is insufficient restraint and supervision, any power will lead to corruption. To prevent the abuse of power, power must be restrained by power.
66. People often praise mediocre people. For mediocre people, people are very happy to help; for talented people, people are happy to be deprived. The latter became the object of jealousy, and people did not forgive him; but for the interests of the former, people supported him at all costs, and he was supported by people's vanity.
67. I have never known any trouble that cannot be relieved by an hour of reading.
68. The law is formulated to punish human beings for their evil and perversity, so the law itself must be the purest and most innocent.
69. All those who have power have the tendency to abuse their power to seek personal gain for themselves; the purpose of education in any authoritarian country is to try to lower the minds of the people.
70. Society is a collection of people, not each of them themselves.
71. Politeness makes polite people happy, and also makes people who are treated politely happy.
72. Under monarchy and autocratic government, few people pursue frugality. Those who are corrupted by comfort and pleasure will not like to live a frugal life. Those who envy or admire the luxury of others do not like frugality.
73. In a country where there must be status differences, there must be privileges.
74. What dominates and governs everything is the power of law in a monarchy and in an autocratic government it is the iron fist of the monarch that is always held high. But in a country of the people there is also a driving force. Pivot, this is virtue.
75. To prevent the abuse of power, power must be restrained by power.
76. A moderate political system is not based on accidental whims, but is established through the checks and balances of various factions and careful thinking, so it is standardized and stable. Autocratic government, on the other hand, is just the opposite. It is based on contingency. This contingency is the elusive, ever-changing will and insatiable lust of the autocratic monarch.
77. A soul that has been corrupted by luxury is full of thousands of desires. In order to realize his desires, he does not hesitate to fight against the law.
78. Education should improve people’s minds, while education in authoritarian countries reduces people’s minds. Slave sex education is beneficial even for those in commanding positions, where there is no one who can be a tyrant and not be a slave at the same time. Absolute obedience means that the person who obeys is stupid, even the person who issues the order is stupid, because he does not need to think, doubt or reason, he only needs to express his willingness to obey.
79. The principle of authoritarian politics is terror.
80. Luxury always follows fornication, and fornication always follows luxury.
81. Charm is by no means something acquired. To gain charisma, you must first be naive. But how can people be naive?
82. If you like reading, you can turn boring moments into moments of joy.
83. Freedom is the right to do everything permitted by law.
84. Let us make dishonor the most severe part of the punishment!
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