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

Death and Dying

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

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Luxury

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Food and Eating

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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

Simplicity

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

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.

Fortune

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 …

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

Speakers and Speaking

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

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Freedom

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

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

Talent

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

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

Friends and Friendship

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

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

Time and Time Management

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

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

God

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

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Greatness

World Quotations

World Quotations

Author » Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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

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 …

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

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

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

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

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

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

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.