Charles Louis Montesquieu: Frases en inglés (página 2)

Charles Louis Montesquieu era cronista y pensador político francés. Frases en inglés.
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“If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman, because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.”

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Si je savais une chose utile à ma nation qui fût rui­neuse à une autre, je ne la pro­po­se­rais pas à mon prince, parce que je suis homme avant d’être Français, parce que je suis néces­sai­re­ment homme, et que je ne suis Français que par hasard
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Pensées et Fragments Inédits de Montesquieu (1899)

“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.”

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J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage.
Pensées Diverses

“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”

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No. 40. (Usbek writing to Ibben)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced wars; it is the intolerant spirit animating that which believed itself in the ascendant.”

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No. 86. (Usbek writing to Mirza)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.”

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Le succès de la plupart des choses dépend de savoir combien il faut de temps pour réussir.
Pensées Diverses

“Horace and Aristotle told us of the virtues of their fathers, and the vices of their own time, and authors down through the centuries have told us the same. If they were right, men would now be bears.”

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Horace et Aristote nous ont déjà parlé des vertus de leurs pères, et des vices de leur temps, et les auteurs de siècle en siècle nous en ont parlé de même. S'ils avaient dit vrai, les hommes seraient à présent des ours.
Pensées Diverses

“Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?”

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No. 35. (Usbek writing to Gemchid)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“I write to thee on this subject, [friend], because I am angry at a book which I have just left, which is so large, that it seems to contain universal science, but it hath almost split my head, without teaching me anything.”

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No. 66.
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.”

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No. 95. (Usbek writing to Rhedi)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“And yet there is nothing so badly imagined: nature seems to have provided, that the follies of men should be transient, but they by writing books render them permanent. A fool ought to content himself with having wearied those who lived with him: but he is for tormenting future generations; he is desirous that his folly should triumph over oblivion, which he ought to have enjoyed as well as his grave; he is desirous that posterity should be informed that he lived, and that it should be known for ever that he was a fool.”

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Commonly paraphrased as "An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations".
No. 66. (Rica writing to * * *)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin!”

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No. 50. (Rica writing to * * *)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“In France there are three kinds of professions: the church, the sword, and the long robe. Each hath a sovereign contempt for the other two. For example, a man who ought to be despised only for being a fool is often so because he is a lawyer.”

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No. 44 (Usbek writing to Rhedi)
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)

“Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when there is no abuse of power. But constant experience shows us that every man who has power is inclined to abuse it; he goes until he finds limits. Is it not strange, though true, to say that virtue itself has need of limits?.
To prevent this abuse, it is necessary that, by the arrangement of things, power shall stop power.”

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Montesquieu libro The Spirit of the Laws

A government may be so constituted, as no man shall be compelled to do things to which the law does not oblige him, nor forced to abstain from things which the law permits.
Book XI, Chapter 4.
The Spirit of the Laws (1748)