Montesquieu Quotes & Quotations

Montesquieu Quotes

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

» 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.

» If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

» We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

» Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

» Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

» Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

» I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

» What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

» This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

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