If the triangles made a god, they would... by Charles de Montesquieu | We Heart Quotes

God Writer philosopher political theory

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Other quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

Men

The less men think, the more they talk.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Reason

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Apathy

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

- Charles de Montesquieu

State

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Friendship

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

- Charles de Montesquieu

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

- Charles de Montesquieu

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