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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.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Sharing
| Keywords:
communicated, renders, sensible, stern
«What orators lack in depth they make up to you in length»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
depth, in depth, in length, length, orators
«Liberty is the right to do what the law permits»
«I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise»
«I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.»
«Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
monarchies, republics, ruins, The monarchy
«If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides»
«In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
Chiefs, infancy, institutions, societies
«The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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administration, exerted, occasions, sublimity
«There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.»
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