Montesquieu Quotes

What the orators want in depth they give you in length.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

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