Friendship is an arrangement by which we... by Charles de Montesquieu | We Heart Quotes

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

- Charles de Montesquieu

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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

Age People

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

- Charles de Montesquieu

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

- Charles de Montesquieu

God

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

- Charles de Montesquieu

Countries

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

- Charles de Montesquieu

Power

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

- Charles de Montesquieu

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