The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
Baron de MontesquieuIn republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
Baron de MontesquieuRaillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
Baron de Montesquieu