It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. - Charles de Montesquieu 1 Share Now -
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Charles de Montesquieu 2 Share Now -
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. - Charles de Montesquieu 3 Share Now -
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. - Charles de Montesquieu 4 Share Now -
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. - Charles de Montesquieu 5 Share Now -
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Charles de Montesquieu 6 Share Now -
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. - Charles de Montesquieu 7 Share Now -
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. - Charles de Montesquieu 8 Share Now -
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death. - Charles de Montesquieu 9 Share Now -
