{"id":8695,"date":"2016-05-13T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:26:34","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Charles_De_Montesquieu_21_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=8695","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Charles De Montesquieu (21 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher<\/b><\/div>\n
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Freedom<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Happiness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Friends and Friendship<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Simplicity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Happiness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [God<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Greatness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Liberty<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Food and Eating<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Luxury<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Liberty<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Time and Time Management<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Law and Lawyers<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Law and Lawyers<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Law and Lawyers<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Fortune<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Talent<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Law and Lawyers<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Death and Dying<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Charles De Montesquieu – [Happiness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 21<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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