BARON+de+MONTESQUIEU

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.
 * __ Baron de Montesquieu __**

Solemnity is the shield of idiots.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

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

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

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

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.