Famous Charles Montesquieu Quotations

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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
by Charles de Montesquieu
"In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law."
by Charles de Montesquieu
"The love of democracy is that of equality."
by Charles de Montesquieu
"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."
by Charles Montesquieu
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
by Charles Montesquieu
"If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides."
by Charles 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."
by Charles Montesquieu
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
by Charles Montesquieu
"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
by Charles Montesquieu
"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."
by Charles Montesquieu
"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
by Charles Montesquieu
"I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise."
by Charles Montesquieu
"What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length."
by Charles Montesquieu
"This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it."
by Charles Montesquieu
"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
by Charles Montesquieu
"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."
by Charles Montesquieu


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