Charles de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)
Also known as Charles de Montesquieu, was a French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment and is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers.
The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.