As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.
Baron de MontesquieuThere is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Baron de MontesquieuThe love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
Baron de Montesquieu