33 Quotations with Montesquieu.
- 1. Charles de Montesquieu: An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on ...
- 2. Montesquieu: There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of l ...
- 3. Montesquieu: There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but ...
- 4. Montesquieu: If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish t ...
- 5. Charles de Montesquieu: In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in thi ...
- 6. Montesquieu: I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve
- 7. Charles de Montesquieu: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
- 8. Charles de Montesquieu: False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communi ...
- 9. Charles de Montesquieu: Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for ...
- 10. Charles de Montesquieu: I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, y ...
- 11. Charles de Montesquieu: If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish t ...
- 12. Charles de Montesquieu: If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
- 13. Charles de Montesquieu: If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than o ...
- 14. Lord Acton: Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, ...
- 15. Charles de Montesquieu: It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great em ...
- 16. Charles de Montesquieu: Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
- 17. Charles de Montesquieu: Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
- 18. Charles de Montesquieu: Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
- 19. Charles de Montesquieu: Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
- 20. Charles de Montesquieu: Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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