Quotes by : Charles de Montesquieu

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.....

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

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

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is....

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

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

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

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

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty....

The less men think, the more they talk.