What did Baron de Montesquieu mean by: Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent. - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France Copy
+ Very good laws may be ill timed. Feraz Zeid, June 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Good, Law, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Learn, Science, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Progression, Smooth, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Style, Writing, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Extremes, Human, Moderation, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Defense, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it. Feraz Zeid, July 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Baron de Montesquieu, Abuse, Evil, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
+ Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Baron de Montesquieu, Luxury, Poverty, Republic, 0 - Baron de Montesquieu Author · France
We’ve all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let’s not take a little river turn it into lake. - Jennifer Love Hewitt Actress
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination - Jerome K. Jerome Writer
Hiking a ridge, a meadow, a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. - William O. Douglas Lawyer and Jurist · USA
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
I’ll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, ‘Til the river runs dry. - Garth Brooks Singer · USA
