Charles de Montesquieu was a famous Philosopher from France, who lived between January 18, 1689 and February 10, 1755. He/she became 66 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful.
Our collection contains 34 quotes who is written / told by Charles.
34 Famous quotes by Charles de Montesquieu
"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"
"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption"
"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits"
"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"
"The less men think, the more they talk"
"No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ"
"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death"
"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies"
"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half"
"Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it"
"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed"
"Peace is a natural effect of trade"
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window"
"What orators lack in depth they make up for in length"
"To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight"
"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion"
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice"
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy"
"The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions"
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver"
"The severity of the laws prevents their execution"
"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear"
"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free"
"An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war"
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations"
"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts"
"It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires"
"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state"
"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed"
"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are"
"If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides"
"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve"
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise"
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones"
