An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Charles de Montesquieu
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About Charles de Montesquieu
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French jurist, historian, and political philosopher.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Charles de MontesquieuSuccess in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
Peace is a natural effect of trade.
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.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
The less men think, the more they talk.
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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.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.