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Baron de Montesquieu - From the Books category:
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Boredom category:
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Gratitude category:
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Happiness category:
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Humanity category:
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Intellect category:
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Knowledge category:
- b.1689 d.1755...
You have to study a great deal to know a little. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Life category:
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Mediocrity category:
- b.1689 d.1755...
Mediocrity is a hand-rail. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Movement category:
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Religion category:
-b.1689 d.1755...
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Religion category:
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them? (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Success category:
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Tyranny category:
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Wisdom category:
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. (Baron de Montesquieu)
Baron de Montesquieu - From the Writing category:
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. (Baron de Montesquieu)
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