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

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