An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Quote by Charles De Montesquieu

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Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

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

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

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

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

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life;...

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life;...

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

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

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without...

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without...

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would...

If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would...

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness...

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient...

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient...

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish...

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish...

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

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

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

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived...

An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived...

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while...

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while...

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our...

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our...

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you...

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you...