top of page
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat

"Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty."

Standard 
 Customized
"Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty."

Exlpore more Philosophy quotes

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"War is only one facet of the larger problem of evil which has been with the human race since the beginning . . .This same evil tried to destroy the greatest human being who ever lived, nailing Him to a cross."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!"

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection."

Explore more quotes by Charles de Secondat

Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."
Quote_1.png
Charles de Secondat
"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."
bottom of page