BY SOFO ARCHON
Below is a collection of some great quotes coming straight from the mind of the French political philosopher Montesquieu.
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1. “If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”
2. “To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
3. “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.”
4. “The less men think, the more they talk.”
5. “If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
6. “A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”
7. “I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”
8. “An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
9. “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
10. “What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.”