kwize
login
Quote of the day
|
Authors
|
Topics
|
Sources
“
If wealth is equally divided in a state, there will be no luxury, for luxury is founded only on the comforts that one can give oneself from the work of others.
”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
(1748)
.
copy citation
Another
Another quote about wealth
add
Author
Montesquieu
Source
The Spirit of Law
Topic
wealth
comfort
Date
1748
Language
English
Reference
Note
Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
Weblink
Similar quotes
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
John F. Kennedy
,
Inaugural Address
“For wealth to remain equally divided, the law must give each man only the physical necessities. If men have more than that, some will spend, others will acquire, and inequality will be established.”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
From the same work
“The important men there are so heavily punished by disgrace, by the often-imaginary loss of their fortune, their credit, their habits, and their pleasures, that strictness in respect to them is useless”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
“For wealth to remain equally divided, the law must give each man only the physical necessities. If men have more than that, some will spend, others will acquire, and inequality will be established.”
Montesquieu
,
The Spirit of Law
X
"If wealth is equally divided in a state, there will be no luxury, for luxury is founded only on the comforts that one can give oneself from the work of others." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
Click on the text to copy it to clipboard
