Quotes by : Charles Montesquieu

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

The less men think the more they talk.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.

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

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

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