Famous Quotes

Quotes by Charles De Montesquieu

• An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
• An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
• 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.
• Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
• In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
• It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
• Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
• Peace is a natural effect of trade.
• Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
• The less men think, the more they talk.
• The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
• There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
• To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
• We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.