3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
3 December 2020 Charles de Montesquieu There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
