It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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 MontesquieuThe spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.
Baron de Montesquieu