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

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

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

  • I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

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