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Letter "C" » Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
«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.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Sharing
| Keywords:
communicated, renders, sensible, stern
«What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
depth, in depth, in length, length, orators
«Liberty is the right to do what the law permits»
«I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise»
«I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.»
«Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
monarchies, republics, ruins, The monarchy
«If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides»
«In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
Chiefs, infancy, institutions, societies
«The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
administration, exerted, occasions, sublimity
«There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.»
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