25 Quotations by Charles de Montesquieu
- 1. An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future gener ...
- 2. Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
- 3. False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines ...
- 4. Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
- 5. I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
- 6. If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that ot ...
- 7. If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
- 8. If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which i ...
- 9. In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society ...
- 10. It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
- 11. Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
- 12. Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
- 13. Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
- 14. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
- 15. Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
- 16. Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
- 17. The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
- 18. The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
- 19. There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason ...
- 20. There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f ...
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