Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
Baron de MontesquieuIn the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Baron de MontesquieuA man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.
Baron de Montesquieu