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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

By Charles Montesquieu
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

By Charles Montesquieu
This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.

By Charles Montesquieu
What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

By Charles Montesquieu
I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

By Charles Montesquieu
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

By Charles Montesquieu
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

By Charles Montesquieu
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

By Charles Montesquieu
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

By Charles 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.

By Charles Montesquieu
If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

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

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

By Charles Montesquieu