Charles de Montesquieu

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#cultivated #fertile #free #well

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#big #big ones #exchange #favors #friendship

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#always #empires #great #great things #sovereigns

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#laws #only #overt #punish #undertake

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#kills #lunch #other #paris #supper

Peace is a natural effect of trade. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#natural #peace #trade

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#depends #how #knowing #long #majority

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#given #god #perceiving #reveal #secretly

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

— Charles de Montesquieu

#built #footwear #great #had #highways

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#laws #prevents #severity #their