kwize
login
Quote of the day
|
Authors
|
Topics
|
Sources
“
The one who has no goods and who works is as comfortable as the one who has a hundred ecus of revenue without working.
”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
(1748)
.
copy citation
Another
Another quote about work
add
Author
Montesquieu
Source
The Spirit of Law
Topic
work
revenue
Date
1748
Language
English
Reference
Note
Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
Weblink
Similar quotes
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
Kurt Vonnegut
,
Slaughterhouse-Five
“Whoever has nothing and has a craft is no poorer than he who has ten arpents of land of his own and who has to work them to continue to exist.”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
From the same work
“With enough lands to nourish a people, one can scarcely nourish a family.”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
“Whoever has nothing and has a craft is no poorer than he who has ten arpents of land of his own and who has to work them to continue to exist.”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
X
"The one who has no goods and who works is as comfortable as the one who has a hundred ecus of revenue without working." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
Click on the text to copy it to clipboard
