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.
Charles de Montesquieu
The less men think, the more they talk.
Charles de Montesquieu
If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
Charles de Montesquieu
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
Charles de Montesquieu
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
Charles de Montesquieu
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Charles de Montesquieu
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
Charles de Montesquieu
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