Author: Montesquieu

Quotes

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

- Montesquieu

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

- Montesquieu

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

- Montesquieu

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

- Montesquieu

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.

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.

- Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

- Montesquieu

The less men think, the more they talk.

The less men think, the more they talk.

- Montesquieu

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

- Montesquieu

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

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

- Montesquieu

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