Montesquieu — "I have always observed that to succeed in the world, one has to seem a fool, but…"

"The less we think, the more we talk: so it is with women and politicians."

"The people in monarchies are, generally speaking, more capable of an attachment to the prince, than to the state."

"The less we think, the more we believe."

"In a true state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the force of laws."

"It is impossible for us to suppose that these are men; because if we should suppose them to be men, one would begin to believe that we ourselves are not Christians."