Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Leadership, Character, Giving

• Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Giving, Slavery

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.313, Library of Alexandria

• There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Gratitude, Men, Ties

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 104 (Usbek writing to Ibben), 1721.

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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  God, Philosophical, Two Sides

• One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Giving, Body

• Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Giving, Made

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.569, Library of Alexandria

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