“False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.”
Charles de Montesquieu“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
Charles de Montesquieu“In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
Charles de Montesquieu“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
Charles de Montesquieu“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
Charles de Montesquieu“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
Charles de Montesquieu“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”
Charles de Montesquieu“If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.”
Charles de Montesquieu“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
Charles de Montesquieu