Charles Louis de Secondat Montes Quotes

"There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death."
- Charles Louis de Secondat Montes
(Related: Death, Man, Weeping)

"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
- Charles Louis de Secondat Montes
(Related: Difference, Independence, Laws, Liberty, Present, Right)