Countries are well cultivated, not as th... by Charles de Montesquieu | We Heart Quotes

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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Other quotes by Charles de Montesquieu

God

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

- Charles de Montesquieu

Justice Name

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

- 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

Death Men

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Death Men

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Fear

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

- Charles de Montesquieu

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