Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.