“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“The severity of the laws prevents their execution.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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“Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.”
Charles De Montesquieu
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