Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEULove of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
More Baron de Montesquieu Quotes
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Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
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I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.
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If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
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An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
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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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Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Ever since the invention of gunpowder.. I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.
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Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.
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Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor.
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