Charles de Montesquieu

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from…

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness…

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of…

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them…

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…

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones…

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed…

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed…

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be…

Peace is a natural effect of trade…

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…

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death…

The less men think, the more they talk…