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Charles De Montesquieu

Charles De Montesquieu

French philosopher

Lived from: 1689 - 1755

Category: Philosophers Country: FlagFrance

Born: 18 january 1689 Died: 10 february 1755

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  • Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
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  • Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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  • 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.
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  • Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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  • I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
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  • 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.
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  • If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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  • It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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  • Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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  • Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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  • Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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  • Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
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  • The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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  • The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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  • 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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  • There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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  • 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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  • Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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  • We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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  • We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
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What are the most famous quotes from Charles De Montesquieu?

The two most famous quotes from Charles De Montesquieu are:

  • "Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
  • "Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."

When did Charles De Montesquieu live?

Charles De Montesquieu was born in 1689 and died in the year 1755.