Montesquieu · Skopia

Quotes

4

Treatise · Political literature

Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permits.

The Spirit of the Laws · 1748

★ 2.9

Novel · Epistolary novel

If triangles were to make to themselves gods, they would give them three sides.

Persian Letters · 1721

★ 2.1

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

1755

★ 1.9

Novel · Epistolary novel

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

Persian Letters · 1721

★ 1.3

Books

2

Spirit of the Laws

1748★ 7.5

Persian Letters

1721★ 5.9