Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Moderation

Quotes about: Moderation

• The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Order, Long, Riches

• The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Law, Spirit

• I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Moderation, Mankind, Extremes

  "The Spirit of the Laws". Book by Baron de Montesquieu, Book XXII: Of Laws in Relation to the Use of Money, Ch. 22: The Same Subject continued, 1748.

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